Quotes about Time
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]
- Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
- Henry David Thoreau
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.
- Henry David Thoreau
for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;
- Henry David Thoreau
We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
- Henry David Thoreau