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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"Nothing is so remediless as time."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The future is but a succession of present moments; make them count."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Time is the most precious gift we have."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Time is the gift we cannot buy and cannot return once spent."
Christina Rossetti
"Every moment is a fresh beginning if we choose to see it so."
Christina Rossetti
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"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The Gods themselves cannot kill time"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Who knows but the world may end to-night."
Robert Browning
"Oh, the little more, and how much it is; And the little less, and what worlds away!"
Robert Browning
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"I would rather have one moment of eternity than all the moments of time."
Knut Hamsun
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"Time is the substance I am made of."
Knut Hamsun
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"The years teach us much which the days never know."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Time is the most precious gift we have."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Time is a river, and we are merely boats upon its surface."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Robert Browning
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
William Blake
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"The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock measures."
William Blake
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"The Laugh of Generation may make us old."
William Blake
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"Time, the only true currency of life, must be spent wisely."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Every moment is precious in the life of a lover."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"In the long run, we are all dead."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Time is the only true measure of a life well-lived"
Knut Hamsun
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"Time heals nothing—it only changes our perspective"
Knut Hamsun