“Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that...” — Arnold Bennett Quote

“Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.”

“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”

“Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.”

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”

“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”

“Our love is a Time Machine,”

“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”

“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.”

“Patience is allowing time to work in your place.”

“So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...”

“Atoms (electrons, neutrons, quarks, strings), all we can imagine, are only messages and sparks of condensed knowledge and reminiscence. Emptiness gives the power to “matter,” enabling it to transform and grow. The very fire of hydrogen is knowledge. The Universe is the purest in the moment of space-birth; its primordial fire glows from the first “element.” “Fire” cannot evolve into something different from its existing knowledge. Every new element is the evolution of an idea; every new element is born from condensed knowledge, from the only and the same One.”