Time Quotes

"Memory is a curious thing. It distorts as it preserves."

"I feel very old."

"Time advances in one direction only, and we advance with it like corpses floating downstream"

"Nothing we do in this world will be remembered and we will all be forgotten"

"She had discovered that it was impossible to return to yesterday."

"Time was not passing, as if it had solidified under the heat."

"Time had made them ghosts of themselves."

"The only regret he had was not having done it sooner."

"Time had made her aware of her own complicity in the unfolding tragedy."

"Time moves in cycles. What has been will be again."

"Memory is the space where time dwells."

"The future is written in the past."

"The winter had killed the autumn and the spring was a long way away."

"Time advances in the same way for a fast-moving ant as for a sedentary being."

"He had wasted forty years of his life searching for himself in the mirror of the world."

"The only thing that worried him was the fear of wasting time."

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but a theater for the performance of the past."

"The past was the same as the future and the present was the same as yesterday."

"Time is the cruelest weapon of war."

"Nostalgia is a sickness for which there is no cure."

"Time is a circle, not a line—we return eternally to our beginnings."

"The past is a living thing that breathes and moves among us."

"The river of time flows backward in Macondo, returning us to our origins."

"Age is not how old you are, but how you are old."

"Time was not passing, as it might have in the outside world, but instead was turning in a circle."

"The butterfly that had visited them in those early days had long since transformed into dust."

"Memories can be vile things."

"The only universal cure is time."

"Age was something that did not exist in Macondo."

"The past was always being renewed and improved in memory."