Quotes about Time
It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
— Charles Dickens
Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
— Charles Dickens
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
— Charles Dickens
But its the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
— Charles Dickens
We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
— Charles Dickens
I don't know when, but apparently ages ago—about
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this!
— Charles Dickens
the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.
— Charles Dickens
We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. O Jacob Marley! Heaven and the Christmas-time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!
— Charles Dickens
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.
— Charles Dickens