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