Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 3:1
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
— Alice Hoffman
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
— Alice Hoffman
Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
— Alice Hoffman
Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.
— Alice Hoffman
If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.
— Alice Hoffman
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
— Alice Hoffman
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
— Alice Hoffman
Was it fate?" she asked. "Do we care?" he answered.
— Alice Hoffman
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
— Alice Hoffman
I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully understanding that, in the world God has given us, all things must change.
— Alice Hoffman
but as God created life, so did He create destruction.
— Alice Hoffman