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 past is not finished; we are still writing it."
Italo Calvino
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"Time is not a line but a network of possible directions."
Italo Calvino
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"Memory is not a mirror of the past, but a reconstruction filtered through desire and pain."
Elsa Morante
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"Time does not heal wounds; it merely teaches us to live alongside our scars."
Elsa Morante
"Time passes differently for those who suffer"
Italo Svevo
"Memory is a ruthless editor of experience"
Italo Svevo
"Time is the cruelest of all judges"
Italo Svevo
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese
C
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Cesare Pavese
C
"The cruelty of memory is that it chooses what to keep and what to forget."
Cesare Pavese
D
"Time is the only true measure of our existence."
Dino Buzzati
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"Time is both the healer and the destroyer of all things."
Dino Buzzati
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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Time is the greatest teacher of all."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Time doesn't pass, we pass"
Umberto Eco
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"Time is the substance we spend, yet never conserve"
Umberto Eco
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"Time is the river in which all things flow."
Giosue Carducci
G
"Time heals all wounds that the heart can bear."
Giosue Carducci
G
"Time stolen is eternity lost."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
G
"Time is precious; do not waste it on trivial matters."
Giovanni Verga
G
"Youth is wasted on those who do not appreciate it."
Giovanni Verga
I
"Time is the substance from which we are made."
Italo Calvino
I
"The weight of time teaches us the value of moments."
Italo Calvino
"Time does not heal all wounds; it merely teaches us to live with them."
Italo Svevo
D
"Time devours everything it creates, including hope."
Dino Buzzati
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"There is no greater pain than to remember, in present misery, past happiness."
Luigi Pirandello
L
"Time moves at a different pace for the heart than for the mind."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Time is the substance I am made of."
Umberto Eco
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"The present is always constructed in light of the past."
Umberto Eco
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"We cannot step twice in the same river."
Umberto Eco