# Quote — Hubert Selby Jr., The Room

> Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make you fucking miserable.

- Author: [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr.md)
- Book: [The Room](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hubert_Selby_Jr.#The_Room_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/time-has-to-pass

## More from this book

> Theres always somebody bugging you. They just wont leave you alone. No matter how simple things are there always some sonofabitch complicating things and fucking with your life. Jesus, this fucking world stinks. People are nothing but a bunch of shits. A rotten bunch of shits. They always want to screw you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/theres-always-somebody.md)

> He replaced the gray of the walls with a darker shade by closing his eyes. It felt good to shut out some of the light. Not all, but just some. Just enough so there was a gray without images or threatening corners. Not the blackness that gives birth to those sudden flashes of stinging light that slashes your eyes, or the velvety darkness that thickens and become animated and flows and somehow moves around and over you. Just a soothing gray. Nothing to see.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/he-replaced-the.md)

> I guess I had fun. But not enough to stay.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/i-guess-i-had.md)