Thomas Browne Quotes

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

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

We die only once, and for such a long time.

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

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Never is an awfully long time.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.