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 the greatest healer, but also the greatest deceiver."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"We age and change and grow in understanding bit by bit."Anna Akhmatova
"Time is both friend and enemy to those who write."Anna Akhmatova
"Time is the cruelest editor of all."Anna Akhmatova
"The river of time carries everything away, but memory remains."Anna Akhmatova
"Time is the most precious gift we have been given"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, especially the one you'll never have."Søren Kierkegaard
"The flower fades, the fruit ripens, but the kernel remains eternal."Søren Kierkegaard
"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."August Strindberg
"Time is a cruel master; we are all its slaves."August Strindberg
"Time does not heal all wounds, but it does grant us perspective."Selma Lagerlöf
"The past cannot be changed, but our relationship to it can be transformed."Selma Lagerlöf
"Time does not heal all wounds; only understanding does."Henrik Ibsen
"Time does not pass—we pass through time."Henrik Ibsen
"There are no ordinary moments; each one contains eternity."Boris Pasternak
"Time teaches us what haste cannot."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Time is the substance of which our lives are made."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I measure the years not by calendar days but by the intensity of lived experience."Anna Akhmatova
"The past is a country we cannot revisit, only remember with longing."Anna Akhmatova
"The past haunts us not with what happened, but with what might have been."Anna Akhmatova
"The future is a closed book, but the present is ours to write."Anna Akhmatova
"Memory can be a tyrant."Vladimir Nabokov
"Time is a drug. Its abuse is death."Vladimir Nabokov
"I suffer from nostalgia which is a sickness for which there is no cure."Vladimir Nabokov
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."August Strindberg
"Time is a river that carries us all away."August Strindberg
"Time is a precious gift that should never be wasted on regret."Selma Lagerlöf
"Time teaches us what space cannot: the value of each precious moment."Selma Lagerlöf
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. We should learn from the butterfly's wisdom about appreciating life's fleeting beauty."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson