Quotes about Time
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
— Anonymous
All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
— John Donne
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
— Samuel Johnson
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
— Elbert Hubbard
The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.
— Seneca
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.
— JM Coetzee
True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
— Jack Kerouac
No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
— Jack Kerouac
And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!
— Jack Kerouac