Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. - John Barrymore
Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides. - Sandy Vaile
The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously. - Haruki Murakami
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. - Michel Foucault
We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean. - Sylvia Plath
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. - W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. - Don Marquis
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval - George Santayana
The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal