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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"Now I am here, now I am there."
Billy Pilgrim
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"All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Billy Pilgrim
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"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."
Pi Patel
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"Every moment of time is precious."
Pi Patel
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is set. Do not mourn."
Tralfamadorian
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"I have become unstuck in space and time."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Time is an illusion. We are always dying."
Tralfamadorian
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"There is a time for all things, even for love."
Marmee
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"There is no point in going back"
Rahim Khan
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"Time is the friend of the wonderful, the enemy of the ugly."
Pi Patel
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"There is no such thing as time"
Judge Holden
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"It is often said that grief passes with time, the sharp edges becoming soft, but time has a way of resurrecting memory in unexpected forms."
The Narrator
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"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count, don't it?"
Sheriff Bell
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"The mind creates a funny time."
Pi Patel
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"Timing is everything in life."
Pi Patel
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"The world you see now, it ain't the world I was born into."
Sheriff Bell
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"I don't know exactly what I do with my time."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Time moves differently when you are alone with the sea."
Pi Patel
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"The past is past and no doubt I have too much time on my hands just now."
Stevens
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"The fact is, I am now entering what I might call the latter stages of my life."
Stevens
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"There is nothing to be had from such reminiscing."
Stevens
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"All things move toward their end."
Judge Holden
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"It was not such a long journey after all."
Stevens
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"It is hardly likely that I will ever find myself in that position again."
Stevens
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"There is no point in dwelling on the past."
Mariam
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"Memory is what I have instead of time."
Offred
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"Being invisible gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I had to race against the turning of the wheel."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The past is past and one cannot change it."
Stevens
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"It is too late to start questioning the foundations now."
Stevens