If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

Guy De Maupassant
About This Quote

Nelson Mandela was a great man. He was a former President of South Africa, a human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. In this quote, he was talking about the fleeting nature of life. He was saying that he would like to stop time, but every second you are born only takes away another second of your life. That is why he said, “I shall never experience this moment again.”

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