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 reveals what patience conceals."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Time is the currency we cannot recover or replace."
Guy de Maupassant
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"The beginning is always today."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The past is a foreign country; we cannot return there."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time is the cruelest and kindest of all teachers."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Time does not heal; it merely provides distance from our wounds."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Time is the thief that steals our youth but rewards our patience."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"To grow old with grace is to embrace the wisdom of seasons."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Time is the most precious commodity we possess, yet we waste it as though it were infinite."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Time teaches us that some things matter less than we once believed."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Stendhal
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"Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Stendhal
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"Age cannot wither what was never young."
George Sand
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"The past cannot be changed, but it informs the future."
George Sand
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"Memory is a painter; it paints pictures of the past on the canvas of the present."
Théophile Gautier
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"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?"
Théophile Gautier
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"We are not victims of time but sculptors of it."
Guy de Maupassant
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"The passage of time is the only truly honest mirror."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Time is the great healer of all sorrows."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Time passes differently for those who are happy."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Time is the wisest counselor."
Henry Fielding
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"Time lost can never be regained."
Henry Fielding
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"Time is the most precious gift; use it wisely."
George Sand
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"There is nothing that time will not cool, nothing that he will not reconcile."
Frances Burney
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"Time heals all wounds."
Frances Burney
"Time flies on feathered wings of passion."
Daniel Defoe
"Time is the most precious commodity."
Daniel Defoe
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"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
Laurence Sterne
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"The passage of time erases many truths we hold sacred."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Time is a river of passing events; each is quickly carried away, another comes into its place."
Stendhal