Time Quotes
We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.
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"The atoms are eternal witnesses to all that has been and ever will be."Leucippus
"Time is the most valuable thing."Anaximander
"Time reveals the truth that custom conceals."Xenophanes
"What mortals call eternal is merely what outlasts their memory."Xenophanes
"Time is the greatest and longest established of the poets."Aristophanes
"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."Sappho
"In the garden of memory, certain faces never fade, no matter how many seasons pass."Sappho
"Time steals youth as thieves steal gold; guard your moments jealously."Sappho
"Time is not a prison but the medium through which becoming occurs."Anaximander
"The progression of time is the progression of atomic rearrangement through space."Leucippus
"Will you, I say, cast away the most precious thing you own—time?"Euripides
"Time is the most precious thing of all."Euripides
"The future is uncertain; what matters is how we act in the present moment."Xenophanes
"Time reveals what was hidden and conceals what was visible."Xenophanes
"Every moment contains infinite possibilities for those who perceive them."Xenophanes
"Swift time brings all things to pass."Sophocles
"Time is a kindly god."Sophocles
"Nothing dries sooner than a tear."Sophocles
"Time is the most precious thing a man can give, yet we spend it as though it were infinite."Aristophanes
"Time will reveal everything to those who look."Euripides
"Old age is a disease from which we shall never recover."Euripides
"Time is the ultimate judge of all human endeavors."Euripides
"Time is the measure of motion, and motion is the substance of time."Anaximander
"The wheel turns, and in its turning all things find their place."Anaximander
"Time is the king of all men; he has power over all."Democritus
"The cosmos was not created in an instant, but evolved through eternal process."Anaximenes
"Time is the medium through which change becomes visible to mortal perception."Anaximenes
"Time is the teacher of all things"Empedocles
"If it came into being, then it was not before."Parmenides
"There is no time before being was."Parmenides