Reckoning Quotes

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.