9 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Time

Sir Thomas Browne quotes on time

15. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

33. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

38. Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

42. Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

49. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the ?quinox?

54. But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.

55. To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?

58. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

65. The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.