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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"Time is a thief that steals everything, even our memories of what was stolen."
Paul Verlaine
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"Time teaches us all the same lesson: that everything must pass."
Paul Verlaine
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"Memory is the treasury of life, and without it we are but ghosts."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time moves differently for those who dream."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Every moment contains eternity within it."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time either destroys us or refines us; there is no neutral ground."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Time is a river that carries away all that was."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Paul Verlaine
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"Time is the sculptor that shapes all human ambitions."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Time reveals what circumstances conceal."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Time is the only true wealth; spend it wisely."
Théophile Gautier
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"The past teaches us; the present defines us; the future calls to us."
Théophile Gautier
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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Time moves faster for those who count it"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Time steals everything except memories, and even those it corrupts"
Guy de Maupassant
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"There is something rather magical about time."
George Sand
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"Memory is the only immortality we are granted."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time moves differently in the heart than on the clock."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Memory and dream are the same river flowing backward."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time is the medium in which sorrow ages into wisdom."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Memory is the archaeology of the self."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time is not a river that flows past us, but an ocean in which we swim."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The great remedy for love is absence and time."
Stendhal
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"The past cannot be changed; only the future is in our power."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Time heals all wounds, but memory keeps them fresh."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Time flies, but memory remains eternal."
Théophile Gautier
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"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
George Sand
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"Time is not a river that flows; it is a spiral that repeats."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Every moment contains the infinity we spend our lives seeking."
Gérard de Nerval