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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"I have lost the passion of my youth."
Dorian Gray
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"What is past is of interest chiefly to historians."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"
Lord Henry Wotton
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"If I could get back my youth, I would be quite content to give up everything else."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
The Narrator
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"That which is mightiest has but a brief time to reign"
The Narrator
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"The room was as I had left it years ago"
Pip
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The Narrator
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"I cannot give you an answer to-night. It is too late to-night."
Dorian Gray
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The Narrator
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"Darkness had fallen on the village, and the light of a lamp was a yellow blotch on the night"
The Narrator
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"There are moments when history ceases, and deserts of eternity open out before one's eyes."
The Narrator
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"He had not been in the house for years, not since Lord Henry had come with that strange letter."
The Narrator
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"I wonder what the rest of my life will be. Don't think about the future."
Dorian Gray
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"Do you think your youth will ever come back to you? Time is jealous of you."
The Narrator
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"The past cannot be altered, only understood and accepted."
Pip
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The Narrator
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"Time is the great healer of all wounds and sorrows"
The Narrator
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"I wish it were only the outward form that grew old, and the soul that grew old."
Dorian Gray
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"There is always something tedious about the past."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"The sea calmly rolls on; we carve but one inscription upon her; our gulls are soon lost in her limitless waste."
Ishmael
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"They forgot me entirely, and forgot with me the existence of their childhood enmity."
Nelly Dean
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The Narrator
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"What does it matter to me how many years ago she was born?"
Mr. Rochester
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
The Narrator
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The Narrator
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"I feel as if I am wasting the precious hours"
Pip
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"The hours seemed to lengthen into eternities"
Pip
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"The past is gone."
Hester Prynne