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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"The future is written in the present."
Umberto Eco
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"The present moment contains all of history."
Umberto Eco
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"The past never truly leaves us; it inhabits our present like ghosts."
Giovanni Verga
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"Time is the only honest measure of a person's life."
Giovanni Verga
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"Time is the master teacher; those who do not learn from it are condemned to repeat its lessons."
Giosue Carducci
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"Time wasted in regret is time stolen from future joy."
Giosue Carducci
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"Time is a river of passing events, and strong is its current."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Time will render judgment on all our actions with an impartial hand."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Time is the greatest teacher, if we are willing to learn."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Time passes quickly; use it wisely."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Memory is the only homeland we truly possess."
Italo Calvino
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"Time is the medium in which all stories unfold."
Italo Calvino
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"The past haunts us not because it was, but because we cannot let it be."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Time is a construct we invented to avoid admitting that nothing changes."
Luigi Pirandello
"Old age has this about it, that you are not young."
Italo Svevo
"Memory is a good thing. Memory is a bad thing. Memory is a very strange thing."
Italo Svevo
"Time is the currency we spend most recklessly."
Italo Svevo
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"Time is not a line but a labyrinth."
Umberto Eco
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"Memory is not retrieval but reconstruction."
Umberto Eco
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"Time is the greatest teacher and the cruelest master."
Giovanni Verga
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"Time is the sculptor of all things; we are merely its canvas."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Every moment lost is a death we inflict upon ourselves."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Time reveals what even our deepest thinking cannot."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Memory is redundancy. To remember is to repeat."
Italo Calvino
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"Speed and slowness are only different rhythms of the same movement."
Italo Calvino
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"The beginning of the narrative is a veil drawn over the future."
Italo Calvino
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"The future is already written in the past."
Italo Calvino
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"Time is a city with infinite streets."
Italo Calvino
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"The present is always an intersection of past and future."
Italo Calvino
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"Memory shapes us more than genetics ever could."
Italo Calvino