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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"Dare not claim the present, which the moment that it is, dissolves."
Emily Dickinson
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"Behind Me Dips Eternity."
Emily Dickinson
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"Time is the greatest thief of all human ambitions."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The future is no more uncertain than the present."
Walt Whitman
"The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?"
Walt Whitman
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"Time is made up of an infinite succession of moments."
Herman Melville
"Time is both our greatest resource and our most tyrannical master."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Memory is the treasury of life."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments that signify."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Time is the great healer, though it leaves its own scars."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson
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"Time moves at the speed of how we choose to live it."
Emily Dickinson
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"Time is a river of passing events; as soon as a thing has been seen it is carried away and another comes in its place."
Washington Irving
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"Every moment we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again."
Washington Irving
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain
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"To know how to live is to know how to let things pass away."
Herman Melville
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"Time is the judge that ultimately vindicates all truth."
Herman Melville
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"Time flies never to be recalled."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Time is the greatest teacher, yet it kills all its pupils."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one."
Edgar Allan Poe
"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Time and tide wait for no man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
Emily Dickinson
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"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson
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"Life is so much shorter than we think it."
Emily Dickinson
"Time is a river of passing events."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The burden of the past is too heavy for any one man."
Henry James