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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"Memory is unreliable. That's what makes it interesting."
Kathy Acker
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"Memory is a text that rewrites itself with each reading."
Kathy Acker
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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
Nelson Mandela
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"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."
Elena Garro
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"Time devours everything it creates."
Elena Garro
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"Time is the greatest thief of all."
Elena Garro
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"Every moment contains eternity."
Elena Garro
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"We live in the spaces between what was and what will be."
Elena Garro
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"Memory is both blessing and curse."
Elena Garro
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"Time erases everything except what we choose to remember."
Elena Garro
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"We live in the tension between memory and forgetting."
Elena Garro
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"Time is the substance from which I am made."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Time is a gift we often take for granted."
Rosario Castellanos
"Memory is the keeper of identity; without it, we are lost in an endless present."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Time does not heal all wounds; understanding and forgiveness do."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"Time is the greatest teacher, though its lessons often come too late."
Rubén Darío
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"Time heals what reason cannot touch."
Rubén Darío
"Time teaches us that nothing is permanent except change."
Gioconda Belli
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"Time cannot erase what the soul has witnessed."
Nellie Campobello
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"Time is the measure of what we truly valued."
Nellie Campobello
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"Memory is reconstruction, not retrieval. We remake our past constantly."
Kathy Acker
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"Time does not heal all wounds; understanding does."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Memory is the only place where the past continues to breathe."
Elena Garro
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"Time is a story we tell ourselves about the movement of our lives."
Elena Garro
"Time is the only currency we cannot recover once spent."
Gioconda Belli
"Time is not a line but a spiral of recurring patterns."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Time teaches lessons that cannot be rushed."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Time waits for no one; use it wisely."
Mariano Azuela
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"Time is the one resource we cannot recover."
Mariano Azuela