Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.

Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

 Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.