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
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"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour"
Henry James
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"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
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"The only true paradise is the paradise that we have lost."
Marcel Proust
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"The time we waste is the time in which illness thrives."
Marcel Proust
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"Time passes and we change; through time something new comes into being and older things fade away."
Marcel Proust
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"Time is the greatest innovator."
Marcel Proust
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"Memory is not the faculty of recollection but of forgetting."
Marcel Proust
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"The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm of our memory, beyond the reach of intellect."
Marcel Proust
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"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"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
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"The past cannot be changed, but it can teach us about the future."
François Mauriac
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"We are given time as a gift, yet we squander it as though it were infinite."
François Mauriac
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"The mind is of very slow growth and very sudden decay."
Anatole France
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"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
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"One cannot both feast and fast at the same time."
Henry James
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"Time is a great healer, though not in the way we expect."
Henry James
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"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."
Marcel Proust
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"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."
Marcel Proust
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"Time is the most valuable currency, yet we spend it carelessly."
Marcel Proust
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"We carry our pasts with us whether we acknowledge them or not."
Marcel Proust
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"I know of a man who killed himself because he could not get anything done in the time allowed him."
Albert Camus
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"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