Quotes about Time

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

I watched your snapshot fade for twenty years.

Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same.

Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk, it's the universal protest against Time. Just remember, dear Friends: What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. // The Year of the Flood

there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it.

God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past

Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.