“Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Facebook post, 4/8/15
“Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis
Source: Cosmopolis
Sören Kierkegaard book For Self-Examination
Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 36-37
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
I Forgot That Love Existed
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.”
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
Frothingham, Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. p. 314
1800s