Postponed Quotes

What we push forward, and why it rarely disappears.

This set of quotes examines postponement as both a personal and systemic habit, including the idea that capitalism itself runs on postponing enjoyment toward a future that never quite arrives. Related themes continue under Desire quotes.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Quotes by Norman O. Brown

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.

Quotes by Mark Grotjahn

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

Quotes by Marc Faber

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Quotes by Kin Hubbard

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Quotes by Claire Danes

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

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One artist recalls landing a first show only because another exhibit was postponed, while another line argues that government crisis intervention has only postponed the real problem. See also Crisis quotes.

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