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 not nostalgic; it is an active practice of truth-telling."
Nellie Campobello
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"Memory, like revolution, is never finished; it continues to unfold."
Nellie Campobello
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"In Mexico, history is not past; it is present and future."
Nellie Campobello
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"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."
Octavio Paz
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"The present is perpetually transformed into the past, and the future perpetually into the present."
Octavio Paz
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"The past is a phantom that haunts the present."
Octavio Paz
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"The present moment contains all moments."
Octavio Paz
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"We inherit the past; we create the future; we live in the present."
Octavio Paz
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"Every moment contains the whole of existence."
Octavio Paz
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"The present is the only reality we truly possess."
Octavio Paz
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"The past is a weight we carry, but we are not condemned to be crushed by it."
Juan Rulfo
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"Time moves differently for those who are waiting."
Juan Rulfo
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"The past is a country we can never fully leave."
Juan Rulfo
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"The past is never truly past; it lives within us and shapes our present."
Carlos Fuentes
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"Time is not a line but a labyrinth we navigate with imperfect maps."
Carlos Fuentes
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"Memory is not a record of what happened, but a story we tell ourselves."
Carlos Fuentes
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"Time moves differently for those who are waiting and those who are creating."
Carlos Fuentes
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"Memory is the only immortality we have; we must tend it carefully."
Carlos Fuentes
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"Time is the greatest gift we can give someone."
Laura Esquivel
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"Time teaches us what words cannot."
Laura Esquivel
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"Time is the substance of life."
Laura Esquivel
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"Every story preserved is a victory against time."
Nellie Campobello
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"Memory shapes us as much as the present moment does."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The past is not a foreign country; it lives within us."
Rosario Castellanos
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"Time is the only currency that cannot be regained once spent."
Ariel Dorfman
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"Time passes, but meaning endures."
Ariel Dorfman
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"Time moves differently for the hunted and the hunter."
Mariano Azuela
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"Time is the only democracy—it consumes rich and poor alike."
Mariano Azuela
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"Memory is the only immortality we possess."
Juan Rulfo
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"Time heals nothing; it only changes how we remember."
Juan Rulfo