Jean-Paul Sartre quote about time from Nausea - I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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“ I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail. ”
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Nausea
Topic time remembrance moment
Date 1938
Language English
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Note Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander
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“J'ai voulu que les moments de ma vie se suivent et s'ordonnent comme ceux d'une vie qu'on se rappelle. Autant vaudrait tenter d'attraper le temps par la queue.” Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée

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Jean-Paul Sartre quote about time from Nausea - I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
Jean-Paul Sartre quote about time from Nausea - I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.