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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"Life offers to none a charm that is permanent, the inevitable effect of time is to degrade and destroy."
Thomas Hardy
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"Time is a great healer, though it tends to be a healer only to those who wish to be healed."
Thomas Hardy
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"Time is a waste of money."
Oscar Wilde
"Time is a killer."
Samuel Beckett
"Time is the medium of our discontent."
Samuel Beckett
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"Time is a river on which every leaf must eventually float away."
James Joyce
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"The most important actions are often the ones that will take us years to fully understand."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The past and future exist only in the mind. Reality is always in the present."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The years have not been kind to me, but they have not been entirely hard."
George Eliot
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"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
George Eliot
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"Time has only too much in store."
Thomas Hardy
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"Time heals all wounds, but it also wounds all healing."
Thomas Hardy
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"Every atom of your flesh is not then you, nor to be lost in wasted haste."
Anne Brontë
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"Time is the most precious commodity we possess."
Anne Brontë
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"Time is a river that flows only forward."
Anne Brontë
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"Time can but make it easier to hide that stain upon our skin."
William Butler Yeats
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"The greatest teacher of all is time itself."
William Butler Yeats
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"Life is too short to nurse grievances."
Emily Brontë
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"Time is a river sweeping us toward the future."
Emily Brontë
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"The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future."
James Joyce
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"The years, the years teach much which the days never knew."
James Joyce
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"Time moves forward regardless of our wishes; we must move with it."
Anne Brontë
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"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Anne Brontë
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"Memory is a cruel editor that rewrites our histories to suit our present emotions."
Thomas Hardy
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"Time moves differently for the hopeful and the despairing."
Thomas Hardy
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"The body ages faster than the spirit learns wisdom."
Thomas Hardy
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"The tragedy of youth is its confidence in its own permanence."
Thomas Hardy
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"The glorious moments of our life are not so very rare after all; they are rather moments when something new comes into being."
George Eliot
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"Time softens the gruffest of hearts."
George Eliot
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"What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever."
George Eliot