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 past refuses to stay buried."
John Banville
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"Time teaches what youth cannot understand."
Austin Clarke
"Time is not something to be managed; it is something to be inhabited fully."
Patrick Kavanagh
"Time moves at the same pace for all of us, yet some seem to have more of it."
Patrick Kavanagh
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Christy Brown
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Christy Brown
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"Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."
Christy Brown
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift."
Christy Brown
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"Time does not heal; it merely teaches us to live with our wounds as old acquaintances."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Time is our most precious resource; spend it wisely."
Christy Brown
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"The past is not dead; it is living in the present and shaping the future."
Seamus Heaney
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"Memory is not something we retrieve but something we reconstruct and reshape."
Seamus Heaney
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"The weight of history shapes the possibilities of the present."
Seamus Heaney
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"The past is not something we leave behind but something we carry with us."
Seamus Heaney
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"Memory is a painter; it paints pictures of the past on the canvas of time."
Padraig Colum
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"The present moment is the only time any of us truly possess."
Padraig Colum
"Memory is the only thing that binds us together across time"
Frank O'Connor
"One can never know about days that haven't happened yet"
Frank O'Connor
"Time is the substance I am made of"
Frank O'Connor
"Time doesn't heal all wounds, but it does teach us endurance"
Patrick Kavanagh
"Time is the only currency that matters"
Patrick Kavanagh
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"Time is the medium in which we create meaning."
Austin Clarke
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"The present moment is the only place where change can occur."
Austin Clarke
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"Memory shapes us more than any present moment ever could."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Time does not heal wounds; rather, it teaches us to live with them differently."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"The longer a man lives the less important his past becomes."
Brendan Behan
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"Memory is the only immortality we possess in this fleeting world."
Austin Clarke