“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14
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“All that time is lost which might be better employed.”
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(1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel
“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”
Quintus Sextius
Roman philosopher
Sentences of Sextus
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47
“More was lost there than mere life and existence: we were overthrown for all time to come.”
Plus est quam vita salusque
quod perit: in totum mundi prosternimur aevum.
Book VII, line 639 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47.
Context: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
