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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"One reason we don't recognize our period while we're in it is because we're too busy living it."
Flannery O'Connor
"You think when you wake up in the morning it's the same morning? It ain't."
Cormac McCarthy
"Every moment is provisional. That's what makes it real."
Cormac McCarthy
"The only real currency is time. Everything else can be replaced, but time cannot."
Cormac McCarthy
"First of all, you must understand that we are in a weird time."
Carson McCullers
"The law of nature is that time is a healer of all wounds."
Carson McCullers
"Time is both our enemy and our salvation."
Carson McCullers
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"Memory is a weight that accumulates slowly and finally drags us down."
Eudora Welty
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"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order."
Eudora Welty
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"The past is contained in every present moment."
Eudora Welty
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"Time does not heal all wounds; understanding does."
Eudora Welty
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"Time is the substance we are made of; how we use it defines our lives."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The past does not determine the future, though it constrains our choices."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"I'm going to have a time now, I haven't had time really in years."
Harper Lee
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"Time moves differently when you're young; it flies as you grow older."
Harper Lee
"The so-called 'present moment' of real time is really just an imagined collective narcosis."
David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'present' is really just the gap between past and future."
David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'future' is really just the past seen from a different angle."
David Foster Wallace
"There is no more important time than now."
David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'present moment' is really an illusion created by consciousness."
David Foster Wallace
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"The future is made of the same material as the present."
Saul Bellow
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"To neglect one's times is to become timeless, but it's a death."
Saul Bellow
"In the end we are all dead men. The question is how we spend the time between now and then."
Cormac McCarthy
"The past cannot be undone."
Philip Roth
"The past is always with us."
Philip Roth
"Time moves differently in the heart than on the clock."
Carson McCullers
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"The front yard belonged to the present hour."
Eudora Welty
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"Time is of little relevance when passion is the guide."
Eudora Welty
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"Time moves differently in memory than in experience."
Eudora Welty
"All decisions made in the past are now present realities you must deal with."
Cormac McCarthy