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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"Every moment of life is precious and should not be wasted."
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"Time reveals all truths."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
C
"There is no time. There is only now."
Chaplain Tappman
B
"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains"
Billy Pilgrim
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"Memory is the treasury of the soul"
Natasha Rostova
B
"That was I. That is me. That will be me."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, one thing happens and then another."
Billy Pilgrim
J
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
Jean Valjean
T
"Congratulations. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."
Tralfamadorian
B
"The most important thing is the present moment."
Billy Pilgrim
C
"You're wasting your time."
Colonel Cathcart
V
"What does it matter if I lose a few years of life?"
Victor Frankenstein
J
"Time is the greatest enemy in our struggle."
Jonathan Harker
B
"I have come unstuck in time."
Billy Pilgrim
V
"Time is both our ally and our enemy."
Van Helsing
V
"Time is our ally in the fight against evil."
Van Helsing
T
"Time isn't the issue. The issue is the moment."
Tralfamadorian
M
"The time was running short, and the light was dying."
Marlow
V
"How much has happened since I departed from Geneva!"
Victor Frankenstein
B
"Tralfamadorians don't see time the way we do."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The past does not change. The future does not change. Things simply are."
Billy Pilgrim
K
"I have no time. There is no time!"
Kurtz
B
"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."
Billy Pilgrim
J
"There's a time for all things."
Jim
M
"It's our turn now to make hay and enjoy the sunshine."
Marmee
V
"There is a time for all things—and that time must be now."
Van Helsing
T
"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Tralfamadorian