A Quote by Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

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Time Composed Forever

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Emily Dickinson
American - Poet
December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

Forever is composed of Nows? 'Tis not a different time? Except for Infiniteness? And Latitude of Home

Emily Dickinson

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

John Green

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is comprised of nows.

Emily Dickinson

Forever is made up of nows.

Emily Dickinson

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Kij Johnson

I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Nicholas Evans

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.

Neil Gaiman

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

Mohsin Hamid

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

Josephus

As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles as well.

Fawad Khan

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

Rebecca Stead

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

Taisen Deshimaru

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.