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Alfred Whitehead on Time

“How the past perishes is how the future becomes.”

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“The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.”

Others on Time

Virgil

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“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”

Shakespeare

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“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

Stephen King

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“Time's the thief of memory”

Haruki Murakami

4 quotes

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”

Zora Neale Hurston

4 quotes

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

Maggie Stiefvater

4 quotes

“Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.”

William Faulkner

3 quotes

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

T. S. Eliot

3 quotes

“You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.”

James Joyce

3 quotes

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

William Penn

3 quotes

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”

Jane Austen

3 quotes

“Time will explain.”

Julian Barnes

3 quotes

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”

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