Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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"Time alone reveals the just man; one day exposes the wicked"
Sophocles
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"What nature gives, time takes away; what virtue gives, time strengthens"
Sophocles
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"Time will show what is right."
Euripides
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"Tomorrow is promised to no one."
Euripides
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"Time is the stage upon which love and strife perform their endless drama."
Empedocles
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"Time is the fire in which we burn, yet only fire tempers the strongest steel."
Aristophanes
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"Time is the only currency that matters."
Frankie Boyle
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best is now."
Frankie Boyle
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"The present moment is all we ever really have."
Frankie Boyle
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"The rotating heavens teach us that all things move in cycles of growth and decay."
Anaximander
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"The sun, eternal in its cycling, teaches us that constancy lies in change."
Anaximander
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"All things that come into being must pass away, yet Being itself is eternal."
Parmenides
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"What is cannot be generated, for it has always been."
Parmenides
P
"In the absolute present, all time collapses into eternal now."
Parmenides
P
"In Being, there is no past, no future, only the eternal present."
Parmenides
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"Time is the one currency that cannot be earned back once spent."
Euripides
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"Memory is the bridge between who we were and who we are becoming."
Euripides
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"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day."
Sophocles
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"Where lies the power to undo what has been done, or to remedy what is amiss?"
Sophocles
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"What is unbearable today becomes bearable through time and acceptance."
Sophocles
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Frankie Boyle
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"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."
Frankie Boyle
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Frankie Boyle
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"In old age, all things become precious."
Aristophanes
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"Old age is a harbour after a rocky voyage."
Aristophanes
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"Time devours all things, yet creation continues eternally in new forms."
Empedocles
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"Each moment is a gift; waste none of them on regret."
Democritus
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"Time is the river in which all things eventually find their true course."
Democritus
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"Time itself is an illusion of mortal consciousness."
Parmenides
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"The older you get, the less time you have left. So make it count."
Peter Kay