Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Time passes whether we will or not."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Time is a thief that steals our youth unnoticed."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The seeds we plant in youth bear fruit in age."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Everyone experiences the present moment, but few truly live in it."
Boris Pasternak
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"The past is written, the future is unwritten, we live only in now."
Boris Pasternak
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"Memory shapes us more than any current circumstance."
Boris Pasternak
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"Time wounds all heals—except it's exactly backwards."
Boris Pasternak
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"Everything that now exists will one day be younger than it is today."
Maxim Gorky
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"The seeds of tomorrow are planted in today's actions."
Maxim Gorky
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Maxim Gorky
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"Time moves slowly when you're in pain."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The future is hidden even from those who make it."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Time is the greatest teacher."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Time is the greatest teacher, but alas, it kills all its students."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Time heals what reason cannot touch."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"When you are old, you will look back and realize that you spent half of your life waiting for things to begin."
Anton Chekhov
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"Time is a merciless master."
Anton Chekhov
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"Time is a river that flows backward for poets and forward for accountants."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The cruelest joke of time is that we understand life only when it's nearly over."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The trouble is that we are living in a century of total war and total scrutiny."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"Most of what matters in your life takes no time at all."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Time is the greatest gift and the cruelest thief."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"The only true luxury is time."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Time erases all certainties and leaves only doubt."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The passing of time is the only certainty in life."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The passage of time teaches us that nothing is permanent except change itself."
Maxim Gorky
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"Time does not heal all wounds, but it provides the opportunity for healing."
Maxim Gorky
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"Time is the greatest teacher, though it kills all its pupils."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Time teaches humility to those proud enough to listen."
Ivan Turgenev