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Alfred Whitehead on Time

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

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

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Virgil

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“Time flies never to be recalled.”

Shakespeare

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“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

Stephen King

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“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

Haruki Murakami

4 quotes

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

Maggie Stiefvater

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“The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.”

Zora Neale Hurston

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“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”

Pericles

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“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”

Ovid

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“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”

James Joyce

3 quotes

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

Jane Austen

3 quotes

“Time will explain.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present ti...”

Charles Lamb

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“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”

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