Albert Einstein
Physicist
"That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes."
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Time Passes
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Virgil
Poet
"Time passes irrevocably."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"we who determine how quickly time passes."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes."
Bernard Beckett
Author
"In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working together, focused on a common threat, a shared enemy. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip."
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"Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget."
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"The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find."
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