Full Idea
Time flows, life is a stream, people say, and so on. I do not notice it. Time stands still, and I with it.
Gist of Idea
For me time stands still, and I with it
Source
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or: a fragment of life [1843], I:26) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 3
Book Reference
Carlisle,Clare: 'Kierkegaard: guide for the perplexed' [Continuum 2006], p.60
A Reaction
This is from the spokesman for the aesthetic option in life, which is largely pleasure-seeking. No real choices ever occur.