Quotes about Time
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
- Victor Hugo
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
- JRR Tolkien
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
- AW Tozer
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
- Albert Camus
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
- Marianne Williamson
To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
- Paulo Coelho
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
- Henry David Thoreau