“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
More from Haruki Murakami on Time
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
“The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless”
Others on Time
Virgil
6 quotes“Time flies never to be recalled.”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.”
Jane Austen
3 quotes“Time will explain.”
Charles Lamb
3 quotes“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”
Pericles
3 quotes“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
Ovid
3 quotes“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”
John Wooden
3 quotes“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Julian Barnes
3 quotes“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Saint Augustine
3 quotes“What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.”