“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
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Virgil
6 quotes“Time flies never to be recalled.”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.”
Jane Austen
3 quotes“Time will explain.”
Charles Lamb
3 quotes“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”
Pericles
3 quotes“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
Ovid
3 quotes“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”
John Wooden
3 quotes“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Julian Barnes
3 quotes“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Saint Augustine
3 quotes“What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.”