Time Quotes

"Time is the one thing we cannot buy back."

"The past is not dead; it lives in the language we speak and the concepts we use."

"The past is not past; it structures the present in ways we must learn to see and understand."

"Nostalgia is a luxury available only to those whose past was relatively secure."

"Memory is always constructed, never simply recovered from the past."

"The photograph arrests time but simultaneously reveals its irrevocable passing."

"Homesickness for an authentic past prevents us from understanding the present."

"Nostalgia for authenticity itself becomes an inauthentic commodity."

"Modern life accelerates toward a state where nothing can be truly experienced."

"Time itself is experienced differently depending on one's position in society."

"Time is not neutral; it is structured by the needs and possibilities of the present society."

"The clock has become the symbol of our enslavement."

"The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."

"The past is always a present past."

"Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past; it is the theatre of all such efforts."

"Interruption is the form of memory."

"The present is not a bridge between past and future but their battlefield."

"The present is haunted by the future it might still become."

"Time is the dimension in which hope unfolds."

"Time is the dimension in which all human activity unfolds."

"Every moment contains within it the possibility of transformation."

"Time is not external but constitutive of conscious experience"

"Every act of consciousness has temporal structure"

"The present moment contains memories of the past and anticipations of the future"

"The present living tradition is the context of all understanding"

"Everyone nowadays is very busy; but much of this busyness serves as a distraction."

"Being and time determine each other."

"Time is the fundamental concept underlying all Being."

"Time itself is colonized when we cannot imagine futures radically different from the present."

"The photograph arrests time and thereby changes our relationship to it."