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Category: Time and Passing

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1. "Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."

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Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness


2. "Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows."

proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


3. "History: An illusion caused by the passage of time."

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Quotations about: History and Nations


4. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

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5. "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Quotations about: Life and Death


6. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Youth and Age


7. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L.P. (Leslie Poles) Hartley, "The Go-Between"


8. "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Various


9. "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

William Ewart Gladstone, speech to the House of Commons

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy



10. "People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone."

Quentin Crisp

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness


11. "Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."

proverb


12. "The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace, "Epistles"

Quotations about: Youth and Age


13. "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."

William Gibson


14. "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."

Michael Landon


15. "In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

Albert Einstein, "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

Quotations about: Youth and Age


16. "Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."

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17. "Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

Horace

Quotations about: Happiness


18. "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin

Quotations about: Life and Death


19. "Time is the only critic without ambition."

John Steinbeck

Quotations about: Art and Culture


20. "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Herbert Hoover


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21. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Woman and Man


22. "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."

William Gibson


23. "Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Life and Death


24. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Life and Death


25. "The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame


26. "Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Manners and Ethics


27. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

Andy Warhol

Quotations about: Success and Fame


28. "The word "tomorrow" was invented for indecisive people and for children."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, "Andrei Kolosov"


29. "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

Franklin P. Jones

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


30. "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


31. "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

Oscar Wilde



32. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence


33. "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

Niels Bohr


34. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."

Franz Grillparzer, "Libussa"


35. "Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"


36. "Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"

Quotations about: Life and Death


37. "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City"

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope


38. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.""

C. Northcote Parkinson

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


39. "American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Quotations about: History and Nations


40. "Punctuality is the soul of business."

Thomas C. Haliburton, "Sam Slick?s Wise Saws"


41. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


42. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

Quotations about: Art and Culture



43. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness


44. "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Quotations about: Pain and Tears


45. "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be — like the reality of yesterday — an illusion tomorrow."

Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination


46. "Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death


47. "The future is a better key to the present than the past."

James Graham Ballard


48. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

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Quotations about: Optimism and Hope


49. "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look."

James Burke


50. "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. "

André Dubus

Quotations about: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

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