Quotes for: time
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Charles Baudelaire
Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
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He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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