Tarry Quotes

#1. This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy or eighty years.

Don DeLillo

#2. Without our God we should fear to move; but when He bids us to, it would be dangerous to tarry.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. But this press of time - take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

George Whitefield

#5. Always remember that fate uses us to its own ends, but it will never take away our right to decide. Choose wisely, and choose quickly. Death comes swiftly to those who tarry in the middle of the road.

Ken Lozito

#6. The pathways of hell are hardly foreign; we shall end up there one day if we tarry too long. From a passageway to a pathway: it is an easy fall, without shock or surprises. Every day we are reacquainted with the sadness of the passageway and step by step we clear the path toward our mournful doom.

Muriel Barbery

#7. The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

Horace

#8. Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Amy Bloom

#9. For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

#10. Jack felt arousal spiking through him, clouding his mind with the wanting, wanting this man, all of him, black and tarry, rotted with disuse, glorious and fractured and spilling out of the cracks.

Jane Seville

#11. Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

Charlotte Bronte

#12. [3] c Weeping may tarry for the night, but d joy comes with the morning.

Anonymous

#13. God designs that those whom He sanctifies ... shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.

David Brainerd

#14. The more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).

Saint Basil

#15. Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

Garth Nix

#16. Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Epicurus

#17. If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Christopher Hitchens

#19. We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It is not a circle, but an arrow. It flies forward with the great express of Love.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#20. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. Some would know
Why I so
Long still doe tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live, and not marry?
Thus I those
Doe oppose;
What man would be here,
Slave to Thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?

Robert Herrick

#22. The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Khalil Gibran

#23. But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.

Dawn French

#24. with my nicely butter-laminated dough. It was, as expected, perfect. I marveled again at the way someone as strong as Tarry could so carefully

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#25. Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

#26. Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again.

Virginia Alison

#27. Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
I shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
I shall be soon!
Love, rest, and home
Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!

Horatius Bonar

#28. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;-and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber which thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#30. Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#32. I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

Kahlil Gibran

#33. No matter how long grave acts tarry in their conceal places, light always move in on them.

Darmie Orem

#34. O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

Omar Khayyam

#35. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Kahlil Gibran

#36. The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry. The girl who will be mine will have skin so soft and tender, and when it comes December, her skin will be my wine.

Jacques Brel

#37. Let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.

Teresa Of Avila

#38. We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Charles Spurgeon

#39. Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.

Israelmore Ayivor