Quotes About Time

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.