Passage Of Time Quotes

• A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

  Rowan Williams

  Healthy, Trying, Limits

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.137, A&C Black

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• The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

  James Taylor

  Time, Secret, Musician

  Song: Secret O' Life, Album: JT, 1977

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• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Home, Water

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• If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Tomorrow, Moments, Hours

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Healing, People, Kind

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Rivers, Space, Mind

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• What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

  John Irving

  Love, Wind, People

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• Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

  Javier Bardem

  Reality, Essence, Age

  "Fictional character: Florentino Ariza". "Love in the Time of Cholera", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Success, Time, Men

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• Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Rocks, Sea

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.107, Penguin

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• All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

  Simone Weil

  Tragedy, Return, Imagine

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

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• Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

  Dolly Parton

  Keys, Adjusting, Able

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• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Time, Rose

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• Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

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• The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

  Haruki Murakami

  Venom, Passages

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.79, Random House

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• The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth.” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Doubt, Sorrow

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• Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

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• Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Botox, Return, Moments

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Regret, Lying, Sadness

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

  William Eggleston

  Eye, Attention, Something New

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

  Doug Scott

  Real, Climbing, World

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• Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

  Jack McDevitt

  Issues, Decision, Going Away

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