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Time-passing Quotes

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill...

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I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin fo...

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I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels li...

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes ...

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The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an u...

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One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy c...

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The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the wa...

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I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I thin...

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Eugène IonescoThe Colonel's Photograph

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ...

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Sala called for more drink and Sweep brought four rums, saying they were on the house. We thanked hi...

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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

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In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like ...

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I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if...

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If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. ...

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You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that...

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I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the i...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again witho...

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