time Quotes

“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, History

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“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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