Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

"The man who keeps his eyes fixed on the future does not see the present."
Italo Svevo
"Memory is a form of forgetting."
Italo Svevo
"Time is the canvas upon which life paints itself."
Italo Svevo
"Time waits for no one, so use it wisely."
Italo Svevo
E
"The past is not behind us; it lives within our bones."
Elsa Morante
E
"Memory is the only immortality we possess."
Elsa Morante
E
"Time is the only honest witness to our choices."
Elsa Morante
E
"The present moment contains all of history within it."
Elsa Morante
C
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese
C
"Everything passes, everything changes."
Cesare Pavese
C
"Time reveals all truths."
Cesare Pavese
P
"Time is the medium in which we compose the meaning of our lives."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
P
"The past lives in us; we do not live in the past."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
E
"The past is never truly past; it lives in us and through us."
Elio Vittorini
E
"Time does not heal all wounds; understanding does."
Elio Vittorini
E
"Time is not a river we flow down; it is a dimension we inhabit."
Elio Vittorini
P
"The past is not truly past if we carry it within us."
Primo Levi
D
"Time does not heal wounds; it only teaches us to live with them."
Dino Buzzati
D
"Time moves differently for the living and for the dead."
Dino Buzzati
"The present is always a stage where we perform for an audience of ghosts."
Italo Svevo
E
"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled."
Elsa Morante
E
"The present moment is always more complex than history allows us to admit."
Elsa Morante
U
"Time is a dimension of existence, not a thing to be possessed."
Umberto Eco
U
"Time is the most valuable resource."
Umberto Eco
P
"The past haunts us precisely because we cannot rewrite it."
Primo Levi
P
"The past is not truly past if it continues to shape our present."
Primo Levi
P
"Time measured by horror differs from ordinary time."
Primo Levi
I
"Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist."
Italo Calvino
I
"Cities are palimpsests where the past and present coexist."
Italo Calvino
I
"Memory is made of layers, like a city."
Italo Calvino