I have let time slip away. I have lost what I should have defended. Guy Debord, Critique de la séparation
Time does not wait; that good intentions are not enough; and that nothing can be
acquired or held on to from a past that can no longer be rectified. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The sensation of the passing of time has always been vivid for me, and I have been
attracted by it just as others are allured by dizzying heights or by water. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
As Hegel showed, time is the necessary alienation, the terrain where the subject realizes himself by losing himself, becomes other in order to become truly himself. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §176
The main emotional drama of life, aside from the perpetual conflict between desire and reality hostile to desire, seems to be the sensation of the passage of time. In contrast to the aesthetic modes that strive to fix and eternalize some emotion, the situationist attitude consists in going with the flow of time. Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations