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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"Tomorrow night I shall sit with you, if I live"
Lord Byron
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"I am ashes where once I was fire"
Lord Byron
"What is past is prologue to what comes next."
Mary Shelley
"The future is obscured by a thick veil."
Mary Shelley
"Time is a cruel teacher, but a wise one."
Mary Shelley
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"Take away time, and what becomes of history."
Victor Hugo
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"Age steals upon us, unperceived."
Victor Hugo
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"We live in a time when time does not live in us."
Victor Hugo
"Time is the moving image of eternity."
William Wordsworth
"Time heals what reason cannot."
William Wordsworth
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"Time is the thief of beauty and the judge of truth."
Lord Byron
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"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Everything is transitory."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J
"Time is the greatest innovator."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J
"The pure present moment is an instant of time and therefore has no duration."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"All things move in cycles, all things return again."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The greatest gift we can give is our time."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"In a drear-nighted December, too happy, happy tree."
John Keats
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"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
John Milton
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope."
William Wordsworth
"Every moment brings its own bread."
William Wordsworth
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late"
William Shakespeare
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"The future is but the past entered through another gate"
William Shakespeare
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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
William Shakespeare
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"Tomorrow will be like today, only more so."
Lord Byron
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"What is more precious than time? Nothing, for time is life itself."
Lord Byron
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Every moment lost is a moment you cannot get back."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J
"Time is the substance I am made of; time is a river which sweeps me along."
John Milton
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"Every moment contains the potential for transformation."
John Milton