Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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"The future is hidden in the past."
Marcel Proust
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"Time heals all wounds, but only if we allow it."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Every moment counts in a world that only allows us the present instant."
Albert Camus
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"Each moment contains infinite possibility and infinite responsibility."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Time is a human construct; what matters is how we use it."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once—embrace the present moment."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Denis Diderot
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
Denis Diderot
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"Time is the judge of all things; truth fears no investigation."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Time teaches what space cannot: the value of being."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The only thing I regret is that I have not enough time to live."
André Gide
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"Time is not a river flowing away but a weight we carry."
Albert Camus
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The past haunts us; the future calls to us."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The future is haunted by the ghosts of what we chose not to do."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction."
Montesquieu
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"Time is the judge of all things; it reveals truth and conceals error."
Montesquieu
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"Time is the judge of all things."
Denis Diderot
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"Every moment wasted is a moment we can never reclaim."
Denis Diderot
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"Time reveals what we are reluctant to acknowledge about ourselves."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Time is a river that flows through our lives, carrying all our yesterdays away."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Time lost can never be recovered, but wisely spent it multiplies."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Time is the judge of all things."
Pierre Corneille
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"Time waits for no one."
Pierre Corneille
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"Time flies faster than we wish."
Jean Racine
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"Every moment brings new possibility."
Jean Racine
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"Time is the only true currency."
Jean Racine
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"Love takes no account of time; it engulfs whole years in a moment."
Molière
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"Time is the canvas of our existence."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Every moment contains the echo of eternity."
Stéphane Mallarmé