Quotes about Time
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
— Thomas Becket
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
— Joseph Brodsky
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
— Billy Graham
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
— Karl Barth
For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).
— Karl Barth
whatever is subject to time is limited, is relative, and is made manifest as world by the 'last things' of which we are now cognizant, whether we will or not. 'It is in no way possible to concede to the Pharisees a kingdom of God already appearing among them, wholly on this side of the end' (on Luke 17:20—1, p.
— Karl Barth
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
— Mark Twain
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
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