The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

-Heidegger, Martin
'Modern Science, Metaphysics and Mathematics', collected in Basic Writings (1977).

Humanitydoesnot passthrough phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind.

-Lewis, C(live) S(taples)
  The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

A third-rate political wheel-horse, with the face of a moving-picture actor, the intelligence of a respectable agricultural implement dealer, and the imagination of a lodge joiner†a benign blanköa decent, harmless, laborious, hollow-headed mediocrity.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
Of President  Warren G Harding. Quoted in Fred Hobson Mencken:  A Life (1994).

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.2.