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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"Time heals all wounds."
Edmond Dantès
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Nick Carraway
N
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
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"The future is made of the choices we make today, and those choices haunt us forever."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The past haunts us more than the present torments us."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The past is but a dream, the future depends upon our actions"
Monte Cristo
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"The past cannot be changed, only understood."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
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"The past is a prison from which we cannot escape."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The past whispers what the present refuses to hear."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
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"So it had come to that, Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."
Nick Carraway
S
"The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another had come and gone."
Scout Finch
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
J
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
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"Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."
Nick Carraway
P
"The past cannot be undone"
Porfiry Petrovich
C
"One never knows what tomorrow may bring."
Charles Bovary
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"The past haunts us more than the future promises."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"We were always tired by the end of the summer."
Scout Finch
G
"The past torments us only because we cannot change it"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Time is the only true measure of a man's worth."
Abbé Faria
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"That's what I thought too, once. I'm older now."
Miss Maudie Atkinson
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"Time itself becomes meaningless in moments of crisis"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The poison of one age becomes the cure of the next."
Monte Cristo
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"Man cannot alter the past, but he can ruin the present by worrying about the future"
Pierre Bezukhov
S
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it"
Scout Finch
N
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
J
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby