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 the basis of personal identity, but it is also a kind of fiction."Jorge Luis Borges
"The web of time—the stranded web—casts us forward and backward perpetually."Jorge Luis Borges
"The future is as fixed as the past; we simply have not lived it yet."Jorge Luis Borges
"Memory is both our salvation and our curse."Jorge Luis Borges
"Between my past and future, there stands but a single moment: the present."Antonio Machado
"The river of time flows swiftly, but the banks remain."Antonio Machado
"The past is a teacher, not a prison; learn from it and move forward."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"Time is the one currency we cannot earn more of; spend it wisely."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"Time erases all things except the beauty we create."Rafael Alberti
"Time flows like a river; we cannot stop it, only navigate it."Rafael Alberti
"Time teaches all things."Miguel de Unamuno
"Memory is like a pocketful of dust."Federico García Lorca
"I would trade all my tomorrows for one perfect yesterday."Federico García Lorca
"The clock is the greatest enemy of the poet."Federico García Lorca
"El tiempo es una lima que consume todas las cosas"Francisco de Quevedo
"El tiempo cura todas las heridas"Francisco de Quevedo
"The past haunts us not as memory but as unfulfilled longing."Luis Cernuda
"Memory is the wound that never truly heals."Luis Cernuda
"Time teaches us that nothing is permanent except longing."Luis Cernuda
"The past lives in us as an unhealed wound."Luis Cernuda
"Memory is both our greatest treasure and cruelest burden."Luis Cernuda
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself that you remember."Jorge Luis Borges
"Time is the substance I am made of."Jorge Luis Borges
"The present is always vague and indistinct."Jorge Luis Borges
"The reader of the present age will come to know him as a figure from the past."Jorge Luis Borges
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there—we do them differently here."Jorge Luis Borges
"Time is the greatest artist; it shapes all things."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"Time heals not through forgetting, but through understanding."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"El tiempo es el mejor juez de los hombres y sus obras."Francisco de Quevedo
"Time is a river of passing events, and strong is its current"Antonio Machado