--- title: "1 Ecclesiastes Quotes By Yehuda Amichai" description: "1 Ecclesiastes quotes by Yehuda Amichai. Plus more from Yehuda Amichai and more Ecclesiastes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/yehuda-amichai-15231_bare-branches_a-man-doesn-t-have-time-in-his-life-to-h_1314520.jpg" --- > [“A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes Was wrong about that. A man needs to love and to hate at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/a-man-doesn-t-have-time-in-his-life-to-have-time-for-everything-he/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/yehuda-amichai-15231_bare-branches_a-man-doesn-t-have-time-in-his-life-to-h_1314520.jpg) ## Other authors on Ecclesiastes - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-king-solomon-son-of-david-52659.jpg) King Solomon Son of David 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ecclesiastes/king-solomon-son-of-david/) ## More by Yehuda Amichai > [“Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/out-of-three-or-four-in-a-room-one-is-always-standing-at-the-window/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/and-as-we-stray-further-from-love-we-multiply-the-words-had-we/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/from-the-place-where-we-are-right-flowers-will-not-grow-in-the-spring/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/i-ve-never-been-in-those-places-where-i-ve-never-been-and-never-will/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [It was not an adventure; it was my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/it-was-not-an-adventure-it-was-my-life/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/when-you-smile-serious-ideas-get-exhausted-at-night-the-mountains/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/jerusalem-is-a-port-city-on-the-shore-of-eternity/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“People use each other as a healing for their pain. They put each other on their existential wound, on the eye, on the cunt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/people-use-each-other-as-a-healing-for-their-pain-they-put-each-other/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/spy-1973-many-years-ago-i-was-sent-to-spy-out-the-land-beyond-the-age/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/look-just-as-time-isn-t-inside-clocks-love-isn-t-inside-bodies-bodies/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“Try to remember some details. For the world is filled with people who were torn from their sleep with no one to mend the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/try-to-remember-some-details-for-the-world-is-filled-with-people-who/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/love-is-like-a-reservoir-of-kindness-and-pleasure-like-silos-and/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/here-jerusalem-tears-do-not-weaken-the-eyes-they-only-polish-and/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have a season for every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/a-man-doesn-t-have-time-in-his-life-to-have-time-for-everything-he/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) > [“I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment millions of human beings are standing at crossroads and intersections, in jungles and deserts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/i-believe-with-perfect-faith-that-at-this-very-moment-millions-of/) [Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ecclesiastes/yehuda-amichai/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ecclesiastes Quotes By Yehuda Amichai", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. 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