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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"We cannot recreate the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I feel like I've been alive for a thousand years."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Without this moment, the past does not exist."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Time is a tyrant. I think it must be, necessarily, since we are not free of it."
James Baldwin
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"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford."
James Baldwin
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"Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, borrowed, stolen, or wasted."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Without continuity there is no meaning; without meaning there is no time."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Time is the greatest teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Sinclair Lewis
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
John Steinbeck
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"Time is the only critic without ambition."
John Steinbeck
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"The future is like heaven, everybody exalts it but nobody wants to go there now."
John Steinbeck
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"Time is the least thing we have."
Ernest Hemingway
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"What is the most important part of the day? I would say the morning."
Ernest Hemingway
"Life is only that which is lived now."
Theodore Dreiser
"Time waits for no one."
Theodore Dreiser
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The cruelest is the cruelest season of all."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Babylon revisited."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Winter comes, and goes, and all that remains is the memory."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"You can't repeat the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The young do not know what age means, and the old forget what youth was like."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Age and sorrow shut us out from the world."
Edith Wharton
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"The great thing about the past is that it's past."
Edith Wharton
"Memory is a great betrayer."
Willa Cather
"Everything that is valuable takes time."
Willa Cather
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"In America, the young are always taking the lead, and the old are always looking back in this bewilderment."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Time is the substance from which we are made, and time is the very thing we cannot save."
Sinclair Lewis