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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"I wish I could hold you till we were both old."Catherine Earnshaw
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."The Narrator
"If the impassive servant of the time-piece who goes on striking, strike now, there is nothing to tell of."The Narrator
"Time moves on, and with it the fates of men and nations."The Narrator
"The past cannot be escaped, only understood."Pip
"I am standing in the presence of my past."Jane Eyre
"What is past cannot be altered, only understood."Pip
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"The Narrator
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"The Narrator
"Tomorrow is my birthday"Lucie Manette
"The past will always return to haunt us."Pip
"The past cannot be changed, only the future."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Life is lived forward but understood backward."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"The experience and knowledge that time gives succeeds to youth."Don Quixote
"There is nothing that time will not change."Sancho Panza
"Small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity."Ishmael
"The past cannot be undone"Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Fourteen years is a long time to wait for anything"Edmond Dantès
"The past cannot be changed, but it can be understood."Pip
"Custom and long use are very powerful."Don Quixote
"Time is the ultimate judge of all things."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Time heals only those willing to be healed"Dolly Oblonskaya
"The past cannot be changed, only understood."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Life is what happens while we make other plans."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Time heals all wounds, but it also creates new ones."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"One can imagine anything about the past, but the present one cannot imagine otherwise than as it is."Anna Karenina
"What is past is past. I must think only of what is now."Levin
"If one could know the future, who would want to live?"Raskolnikov
"The future is uncertain; therefore, we must live as if every moment were our last."Pierre Bezukhov
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."Levin