Quotes related to Psalm 90:12
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
— Milan Kundera
Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.
— St. Augustine
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
— Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
— Samuel Johnson
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
— Samuel Johnson
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
— Samuel Johnson
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
— Milan Kundera
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson