“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”
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Anaïs Nin278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 8e
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“Where are you this moment?
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.”
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist
Written in the 1920s, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
Source: Where Rainbows End
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Conclusion, p. 143
Economic Heresies (1971)
Context: Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
“My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.”
Marco Denevi book Falsificaciones
Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
Falsificaciones (1977)
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath