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 a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
James Joyce
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"I have become my own ancestor."
James Joyce
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"Time moves at different speeds in the human heart."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The question of life is what to do with one's time."
Leo Tolstoy
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"One should never establish a project that would take more than three years."
Anton Chekhov
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"Time is a luxury and like all luxuries, not everyone has access to it."
Anton Chekhov
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"Lack of time is lack of love."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Old age hath yet his honour and his toil."
William Butler Yeats
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"When you are old and grey and full of sleep."
William Butler Yeats
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"Among school children, we see the passage of time and beauty's decay."
William Butler Yeats
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"The years like great black oxen tread the world."
William Butler Yeats
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Samuel Beckett
"There's no time like the present, yet present time keeps flying."
Samuel Beckett
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Samuel Beckett
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"The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time."
Oscar Wilde
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"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Life is available only in the present moment."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The past cannot be changed; the future is changeable."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Time is the most precious commodity; use it wisely."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Time is the fire in which we burn, yet we fear its passage."
James Joyce
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"Memory is the treasury of life's meaning."
James Joyce
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
Samuel Beckett
"The passage of time is a form of torture."
Samuel Beckett
"Time moves in the direction of increasing confusion."
Samuel Beckett
"Nothing happens twice, yet everything repeats."
Samuel Beckett
"The future is just the past entering through another gate."
Samuel Beckett
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"We are not given a short time on earth; we waste much of it."
Anton Chekhov
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"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying 'I don't want to.'"
George Bernard Shaw
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"When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire."
William Butler Yeats
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"We cannot live only for the moment that is passing."
William Butler Yeats