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

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

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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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• One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

  Christine Sneed

  Situation, Passages, Behave

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Solitude, Facts, Kind

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• You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, Dating, Radio

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

  Dan Falk

  Lying, Science, Technology

  Dan Falk (2010). “In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time”, p.3, Macmillan

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• only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Grieving, Alone Time

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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• The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

  Charles Baxter

  May, Said, Passages

  Charles Baxter (2008). “The Soul Thief: A Novel”, p.203, Vintage

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