Time Passes Quotes

• Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Hands, Pulse

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Lying, Literature

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Matter, Oblivion

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.104, Random House

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

  Cynthia Hand

  Frozen, Might, Matter

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• However we pass Time, he passes still,
  Passing away whatever the pastime,
  And, whether we use him well or ill,
  Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Past, Giving

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Numbness, Feelings, World

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.208, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Mistake, Trying

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• But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Night, Sometimes

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• I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Passion, Feels, Privileged

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• We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

  James Gleick

  Thinking, Flow, Metaphor

  James Gleick (2016). “Time Travel: A History”, p.129, Pantheon

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• As time passes, my story fades away.

  Dave Dravecky

  Stories, Fades, Fade Away

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• Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Time

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.164

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• As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

  Michael C. Hall

  Who I Am, Acting, Fundamentals

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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• Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology ... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, War, Struggle

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

  Beth Revis

  Heart, Missing, Sound

  Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.55, Penguin

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• Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

  Courtney Summers

  Want, Ready

  Courtney Summers (2010). “Some Girls Are: A Novel”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times

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