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 most precious thing we have been given."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Time cannot be stopped, but it can be cherished and used well."
Alexandre Dumas
"Time heals what reason cannot."
Mary Shelley
"Time erases all distinctions but leaves truth standing."
Émile Zola
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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death"
John Keats
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"I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days"
John Keats
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"Nothing ever happens twice in this world but the memory of it"
John Keats
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"The beauty of a moment vanishes in the next"
John Keats
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"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on"
John Keats
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Charles Dickens
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Charles Dickens
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"Time is the greatest asset we squander without thinking."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Time is the sculptor of character and the judge of truth."
Honoré de Balzac
"Time flies like an arrow, never to be recaptured."
William Wordsworth
"Time waits for no man."
William Wordsworth
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
Victor Hugo
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"Time is a river of passing events."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The beginning is always today."
Mary Shelley
"Time heals what reason cannot cure."
Mary Shelley
"Memory is both a blessing and a curse."
Mary Shelley
"We carry the ghosts of our past wherever we go."
Mary Shelley
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"Time is the great judge; it reveals the truth in all things."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Time does not heal all wounds; acceptance and action do."
Alexandre Dumas
"Every moment is a portrait of the eternal."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Time is the only true democracy; it allocates the same amount to rich and poor alike."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
John Keats
"The virtues of mankind are sustained by time itself."
William Wordsworth
"Time teaches all things to those who listen."
William Wordsworth
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"Time is the life of the soul."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge