"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come"
- Richard Brautigan
About this Quote
This quote by Richard Brautigan talks to the idea of time and how it can be viewed differently by different people. The speaker is assessing the principle of forever and how it is much longer than the anticipation of Christmas. This quote is a tip that time is relative which what may seem like an eternity to one person might be a simple minute to another. It is a suggestion to value today moment and to not get too captured up in the anticipation of the future. It is also a pointer that life is short and that we should take advantage of it. We ought to not take our time for given and should aim to take advantage of every moment.
This quote is written / told by Richard Brautigan between January 30, 1935 and October 14, 1984. He was a famous Writer from USA.
The author also have 6 other quotes.
"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas"