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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"We live in succession, and therefore we only see the world piecemeal."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The present moment is in some sense always beginning."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The past is a ghost, the future is a dream; all we have is now."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The moment eternal—just that and no more."
Robert Browning
"Time is the river; we are but travelers upon its current."
Robert Browning
"Time waste is the theft of one's own life."
Robert Browning
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Each moment of your life has infinite value."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"No single day should be forgotten."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Not a single moment is wasted."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Dead sounds at length have left the listening ear."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"X marks not the spot but the distance between us."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Time is the only teacher that gives the same lesson twice."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Memory is a burden we carry through the years."
Knut Hamsun
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"Time moves differently for the suffering heart."
Knut Hamsun
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"Time erases all certainty and all pride."
Knut Hamsun
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Memory is the treasury of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Every moment contains the seed of eternity."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Time changes everything except the nature of the human heart."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"What we preserve in memory shapes what we become."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"What passes away leaves traces in the eternal."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Memory is a ruthless editor of experience."
Knut Hamsun
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Time is the greatest artist; it carves beauty into all things."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Time is money, but money is not time."
Søren Kierkegaard