Quotes from The Time Keeper

Some Quotations from the book The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom:

“’What time is it?’ - became one of the world’s most common questions, found on page one of every foreign-language instruction book.”

 “When you are measuring life, you are not living it."

"Holding on to things will only break your heart.”

"Man invents nothing God did not create first."

"A desperate heart will seduce the mind."

“Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.”

"Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand— even in dreams."

"When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness."

“There is a reason God limits our days; To make each one precious.”

“You marked the minutes,” the old man said. “But did you use them wisely ? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”

"Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch . Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures."

 “Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still— until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

"Time moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart."

"A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell."

 “We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”

"A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane .

"Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing."

  

"Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved."

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn't love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.”

"Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.”

"We do not realize the sound the world makes—unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra."