Stop Time

Famous quotes containing the words stop and/or time:

“There were times when I felt that I could bear no more. It was the Emergency Ward which almost broke me. I stood one night beside a man who had been caught in a flywheel, and whose body felt like jelly. I wanted him to die quickly, not to go on breathing. Oh, stop breathing. I can’t stand it. Die and stop suffering. I can’t stand it. I can’t.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)

“Of their virtues the symbol can be washtubs
But when they die it is a time of singing....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)