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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"The present moment is the only eternity we truly possess."
Jorge Isaacs
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"The gift of time is the most precious we can offer."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Memory is the bridge between who we were and who we become."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"To be forgotten is the greatest tragedy; to be remembered is immortality."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"Time devours everything it creates."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The past haunts us because it refuses to stay buried."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Every moment contains the seeds of its own destruction."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The only thing we have is time, and we waste it as if we had eternity."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Time devours all things, but memory preserves them."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The future is just the past unfolding again."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Time is the judge of all actions"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The past is not merely history; it is the foundation upon which we must build wisely."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Time heals not wounds, but our relationship to them; the scar remains."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Time is the river in which all of us eventually drown."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Time is the thief that steals everything we love."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Time flows differently for those who truly live."
Haroldo Conti
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"Time is the currency only the dead can afford."
Haroldo Conti
"We are condemned to kill time, thus we kill it by living."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Memory is a mirror that scandalizes us with the invention of grotesque reflections of our life."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Time passes more slowly for those who are waiting than for those who are living."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"Memory is the only immortality we possess."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The past is a prison from which we cannot escape."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The past never truly dies; it only waits for resurrection."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The future is haunted by the past."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The past is the only country we truly belong to."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We live in the graveyard of abandoned possibilities."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all condemned to live in the present moment, whether we like it or not."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Time does not heal; it merely allows us to become accustomed to pain."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"The past is a country we can never fully leave."
Juan Carlos Onetti