Quotes related to Psalm 90:12
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
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— CS Lewis
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
— Edmund Hillary
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
— CS Lewis
Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.
— Kevin Hart
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
— Samuel Johnson
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
— AW Tozer