Time Quotes

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

20900 quotes

F
"The past is a country we cannot return to, only remember."
Fernando Pessoa
F
"Tomorrow never comes; it is always today somewhere else."
Fernando Pessoa
J
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there, and we can never truly visit it again."
John Banville
J
"The past haunts us not because it is dead, but because it is eternally alive within us."
John Banville
J
"Time moves differently in memory than it does in the moment of living."
John Banville
J
"Time does not heal all wounds; it merely teaches us to ignore them."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"Time is the one resource we waste most freely."
José María de Eça de Queirós
P
"Youth is the time for dreams; age is the time for wisdom."
Padraig Colum
P
"Time is the one resource that, once spent, cannot be reclaimed."
Padraig Colum
S
"Death is but a door, time is the real infinite mystery."
Saramago
L
"Time is the most precious currency, for it cannot be earned back once spent."
Luís de Camões
"Time is the greatest teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students"
Patrick Kavanagh
"Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind"
Patrick Kavanagh
F
"Time does not pass; we pass through time like shadows."
Fernando Pessoa
J
"Memory is the treasury of the mind, yet also its prison."
John Banville
J
"The present moment is all we ever truly have."
John Banville
J
"We are all servants of time, and time is our master."
John Banville
J
"Time is the only commodity we truly possess."
John Banville
J
"Time does not heal; it merely makes us forget how much it hurt."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"Time is the currency in which we measure our regrets."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"Time steals everything except our mistakes."
José María de Eça de Queirós
A
"Time in the Caribbean moves differently; it carries the weight of centuries."
Austin Clarke
A
"The passage of time is written on the faces of those who have endured."
Austin Clarke
S
"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
Seamus Heaney
S
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
Seamus Heaney
S
"Time is the river that carries us forward."
Seamus Heaney
P
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Padraig Colum
P
"Time is both our greatest enemy and greatest teacher."
Padraig Colum
F
"Time devours us not when we are living, but when we cease to feel."
Fernando Pessoa
J
"Time moves differently in memory than in the present moment."
John Banville