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.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

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

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.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

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

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

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

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

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