Helen Prejean Quotes

Age affects how people experience time.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Time is numbered only to man.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Why is youth so short and age so long?

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

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'?

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

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.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

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

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.