Time Quotes

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

20900 quotes

"Time is a mystery, not a highway."
Carson McCullers
"Time heals all wounds."
Carson McCullers
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"Memory is something we have in common."
Eudora Welty
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"Time seems to become more precious the more we age."
Eudora Welty
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"Memory shapes who we become."
Eudora Welty
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"The present moment is all we truly have."
Eudora Welty
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"The past has already happened. What matters is now."
Margaret Atwood
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"Time is a face on the water."
Margaret Atwood
"Memory is a great magician."
Robertson Davies
"You never get over it, but you get used to it."
Cormac McCarthy
"He would be aware of the time passing of the time passing and of his own passing in the world."
Cormac McCarthy
"Time heals nothing."
Cormac McCarthy
"Time is the thief of all things."
Cormac McCarthy
"Time erases all wounds."
Cormac McCarthy
"The passage of time teaches us that nothing remains unchanged, yet we are always ourselves."
Carson McCullers
"Time is the thief that steals our youth but gives us wisdom in return."
Carson McCullers
"Time reveals what was always true beneath the surface."
Carson McCullers
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"The heart knows that time is the one thing we cannot replace."
Eudora Welty
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"Time moves differently in memory than it does in the present moment."
Eudora Welty
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"Time heals not by erasing but by creating distance."
Eudora Welty
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"Time is the most precious commodity we possess, yet we waste it as if it were infinite."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The past cannot be changed, but the meaning we assign to it can be radically altered."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The past is not really past; it is always here."
Margaret Atwood
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"Every epoch has its disease, its anxiety."
Margaret Atwood
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"The future is in the past."
Margaret Atwood
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"Time can make people forget many things, but not what truly matters."
Harper Lee
"We are longing for the past before we know what it will become"
Robertson Davies
"The past is like a fiddle with only two strings"
Robertson Davies
"Time is the one commodity we cannot buy back"
Robertson Davies
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"It takes some effort to live in the present moment."
Flannery O'Connor