Quotes about Time
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
Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
— Samuel Johnson
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
— Samuel Johnson
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