Robert Penn Warren Quotes

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

My bits of time play with eternity.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.