“Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.”

“Yes, he would look for her, whether to delight in the joys of spring together or to plunge into the abyss. He would look for her because he loved her. And somehow this would lessen the lie Claire was living. For, in the end, the girl’s love was reciprocated, and Tom’s love, like Shackleton’s, was also unattainable, lost in the ether, unable to its way to her.”

“The cruelty of time, thought Alex. The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy.”

“Time is a river that carries us along. We have to leave everything behind.”

“Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.”

“If you lose money in business, you can still cover up the loss. If you lose time, the only thing you have by your side is wreckage.”

“When the war endsPerish enemies and friendsWhen all is said and all is doneEveryone has lostJust time has won”

“Depression was my body’s way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination’s way of redefining them.”

“African time should be invested, not lost”

“If we guard our losses, tighten up our time consciousness, then we can transform the nation”

“In my view, he alone wins who does not desire to win, and he who wants to win loses.If someone is desiring and striving to win in life, it means that deep down he is lacking something, that he is suffering from an inferiority complex. Deep down, such a person is aware of the inferiority he is trying to cover through winning. And if, on the other hand, someone is not out to win it means he is already established in his eminence, there is not even a shade of inferiority in him to disprove by resorting to winning.”

“We spend a huge chunk of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually get the person and/or the things we need or want. Once we get them, we spend the rest of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually lose them.”

“Once time is lost, it can never be earned by any means”

“Time only gives one chance, if you lose it once, you can never get it back”

“If we are unwilling to crash, we can never soar.”