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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"The greatest luxury that our age has invented is the capacity for continuous distraction"Henry James
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour"Henry James
"Time is the most precious commodity because it is the one we cannot reclaim"Henry James
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The only true paradise is the paradise that we have lost."Marcel Proust
"The time we waste is the time in which illness thrives."Marcel Proust
"Time passes and we change; through time something new comes into being and older things fade away."Marcel Proust
"Time is the greatest innovator."Marcel Proust
"Memory is not the faculty of recollection but of forgetting."Marcel Proust
"The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm of our memory, beyond the reach of intellect."Marcel Proust
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The future is written in invisible ink upon the pages of the present."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Time is the fabric of life itself."Romain Rolland
"Time is a river that carries us all."Romain Rolland
"The past cannot be changed, but it can teach us about the future."François Mauriac
"We are given time as a gift, yet we squander it as though it were infinite."François Mauriac
"The mind is of very slow growth and very sudden decay."Anatole France
"Time is the great healer, but not before it is the great wounding agent."Anatole France
"Time moves differently when you're suffering versus when you're content."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Memory is the cruelest fiction we tell ourselves."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Time heals nothing; it merely allows us to forget."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"One cannot both feast and fast at the same time."Henry James
"Time is a great healer, though not in the way we expect."Henry James
"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."Marcel Proust
"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."Marcel Proust
"Time is the most valuable currency, yet we spend it carelessly."Marcel Proust
"We carry our pasts with us whether we acknowledge them or not."Marcel Proust
"I know of a man who killed himself because he could not get anything done in the time allowed him."Albert Camus
"The divine is in the moment."Albert Camus
"Time is the most precious gift we possess, for it is the gift of life itself."Romain Rolland