Quotes about Time
I thought we should never part with that while we lived; everything is going away from us; the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!
- George Eliot
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
- George Eliot
I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
- Joe Biden
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
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
- St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
- St. Augustine
Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.
- St. Augustine
Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new
- St. Augustine
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
- Saint Jerome
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
- Samuel Beckett
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
- Samuel Beckett