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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"Everything passes and everything remains, but our task is to pass things on."
Antonio Machado
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"Time is the substance from which I am made."
Antonio Machado
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"Tomorrow is uncertain, only today is real."
Antonio Machado
"The past is a foreign country; we can visit but never truly return."
Luis Cernuda
"Memory is an artist that paints the past in colors that never were."
Luis Cernuda
"Time erases all but the essential truths."
Luis Cernuda
"The past haunts us not because it is gone, but because it remains within."
Luis Cernuda
"Time is the only honest judge of truth."
Luis Cernuda
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"The present moment is the only real estate we truly own."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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"Time is not what passes us; we are what passes through time."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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"Time is a river that carries us whether we wish to swim or stand still."
Rafael Alberti
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"Time is the currency of life, and how we spend it is how we live."
Rafael Alberti
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"Memory is a labyrinth where we all become lost searching for ourselves"
Federico García Lorca
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"Time is a river we all must cross, and no one crosses it twice"
Federico García Lorca
"Time is the sculptor that transforms all things."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Memory is both prison and palace."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The seasons teach that all things have their proper time."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The present moment is the only moment we truly possess."
Leopoldo Lugones
"We are made of time; we are creatures of duration. To exist is to persist through moments."
Julio Cortázar
"We are all exiles from the childhood we once lived in innocence."
Julio Cortázar
"The past is not behind us; it lives in how we respond to the present."
Julio Cortázar
"We are born forgetting; we spend our lives trying to remember who we were."
Julio Cortázar
"Time devours everything except memory and regret."
Luis Cernuda
"Memory is the only immortality granted to mortals."
Luis Cernuda
"Time is the cruelest editor of human experience."
Luis Cernuda
"Every moment contains the entire universe of possibility."
Luis Cernuda
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"We are our memory, we are our past."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Eternity is something that begins after death, but it might also be happening right now."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Time is a river of fleeting moments, and we are condemned to experience it."
Jorge Luis Borges
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"The past is as real as the present, perhaps more so."
Jorge Luis Borges