Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

D
"The consequence of this moment was significant."
Death
D
"She was a thief of time itself."
Death
D
"In the end, only memories remain."
Death
C
"Mortals live such brief lives. Perhaps that is why they matter so much."
Circe
G
"The only concrete thing left of the past was the orange tree."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"It was as if time had advanced backward."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"He understood then that he had been beaten not by his enemy but by time."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"He perceived something irreversible in time."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The past carried the same weight as the future."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"Time is the fires in which we burn."
Judge Holden
C
"Time moves differently for those of us who are immortal"
Circe
G
"Time is a circle"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Time erases all boundaries between the living and the dead"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
O
"Youth is wasted on the young because they don't understand what they have."
Ove
D
"Memory is both a blessing and a curse, and I carry both."
Death
D
"They lived in stolen time, but that made every moment sacred."
Death
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"It was as if a wind from the past had swept away the cobwebs from her memory."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The past was a fixed thing, but the future was always uncertain and fluctuating."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The rain lasted nearly five years, and with it came a forgetting so profound that even names were erased from memory."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The weight of the past pressed down upon the town like a physical force that could not be resisted."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Time moved differently in Macondo, bending to the will of desire and memory."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The past was a fixed and immovable thing."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Time had become visible"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"It was as if everything would remain in eternal suspension"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
P
"I learned early on that we are not promised tomorrow."
Patroclus
F
"Time moves more slowly when you are suffering."
Florentino Ariza
G
"The past was not what had happened, but what one recalled."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Time is a spiral, not a circle."
Melquiades
D
"She was a thief of time."
Death