„All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?“

„I could only write at the beach, and I kept getting sand in my typewriter.“

—  Paul Desmond American jazz musician 1924 - 1977

„Fate gets you into positions of power. Life takes you there. I only do my duty and service to the people. I take all conditions as they come cheerfully and do my duty.“

—  Morarji Desai Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister 1896 - 1995

„life is
only
as good as the memories we makeSo long astoria
i found a map to buried treasure
and even if we come home empty handed
well still have our stories
of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts,
broken bones, and all the best of friendshipsand when this hourglass
has filtered out
its final grain of sand
i raise my glass to the memories we had
this is my wish
this is my wish
im takin back
im takin them all back“

—  Kris Roe American composer and singer 1978

„A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.“

—  Hester Thrale Welsh author and salon-holder 1741 - 1821

„I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.“

—  Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951

„I am not the type of person who thinks in terms of "if only" or "could have, would have, should have". It is what it is and everything happens for a reason. When a person thinks "if only I would have known such and such" it shows a certain amount of fear or lack of trust that everything is as it should be. I try to always do my best and if I look back and think I didn't do my best, then that is the only thing I acknowledge and then try to change. One of my favorite expressions is, "Everything is okay in the end and if it's not okay, it's not the end."“

—  Charlene Wong Canadian figure skater 1966

„Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.“

—  William Goldman, buch The Princess Bride

„I thought my life would be different somehow
I thought my life would be better by now
But it's not, and I don't know where to turn“

—  Aimee Mann American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960) 1960

„I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.“

—  Henry James, Roderick Hudson

„I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.“

—  Brian Andreas American artist 1956

„The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980

„So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.“

—  Garth Nix, buch Abhorsen

„Many childless single woman would be at my age already in panic. Also I have been thinking for the last 3 years, why I have been sacrificing so much time for my work. But, I have ended up to a thought that I would never change a single day out of my life. It would be lovely to get a family one day, but my life doesn't end even if that would not happen.“

—  Enya Irish singer, songwriter, and musician 1961

„At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.“

—  Dave Eggers memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970

„I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.“

—  Jon Krakauer, buch Into the Wild

„Right then, with the shore so close, I understood that I would not do what I should do. I would not swim away from my hometown and my country and my life. I would not be brave.“

—  Tim O'Brien, buch The Things They Carried

„I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.“

—  Fannie Lou Hamer American civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) 1917 - 1977

„If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

„… in the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.“

—  Alyson Nöel, buch Shadowland