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

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

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• After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, People, Desire

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

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• It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Passing Away, Doe

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.92, Penguin

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• The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

  Kevin Williamson

  Memories, Dust, Names

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• Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Taught, Moments

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Body, Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Moon, Night

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.442, Scholastic Inc.

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• You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

  Veronica Roth

  Looks, Passages, Wells

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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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• Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

  Robert Breault

  Time, Mistake, Tragedy

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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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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• My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

  Wilder Penfield

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (2014). “Speech and Brain Mechanisms”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Attitude, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

  Dirk Benedict

  Land, America, Faces

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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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• Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Marriage, Real, Commitment

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.166, Hachette UK

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