Time Quotes

"Time is the territory of desire."

"Memory is the field where history and oblivion eternally struggle."

"Time is not a container we move through but a condition of our being."

"The future is not ahead of us, it is always already behind us, inscribed in the traces we leave."

"Memory is always a reconstruction, never a pure return."

"Forgetting is not mere absence; it is an active force."

"Time is not a line but a labyrinth of traces and returns."

"Time is not a line but a multiplicity of durations that interweave and interact."

"Memory is not the preservation of the past; it is the continual remaking of the past."

"To exist is to be subject to the law of time."

"The most common error in political thinking is overlooking the importance of time."

"The modern crisis consists largely in the loss of the private realm."

"We must develop new notions of time that escape linear progression."

"Time is a construct we use to defer meaning."

"Memory is never pure; it is always mixed with forgetting."

"We are always in mourning for what we have lost."

"Presence is always deferred."

"The future anterior structures our present."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"The time we are given is not our own; it belongs to the logic of accumulation."

"Time is not a line but a multiplicity of forces."

"We do not live in an age of forgetting, but of forced remembrance of what the system deems memorable."

"Thought that reconciles itself too quickly with the present betrays both past and future."

"Time is the canvas on which we paint our lives."

"Modernity has finally won."

"The distinction between public and private is no longer respected in modern society."

"The rise of the modern individual comes with the loss of the traditional bonds of community."

"The principles of justice must be stable over time as society endures."

"The distinction between life history and system history marks a fundamental crisis in contemporary society."

"The loss of meaning accompanying modernization cannot be overcome through nostalgia but through new forms of integration."