Quotes about Time
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
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
— Herman Melville