Top 35 Quotes About Time Passing Away
#1. What still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?
Michael Koryta
#2. Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy ... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.
Phil McGraw
#4. All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
A.B. Simpson
#5. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
#6. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.
Ann Hood
#7. However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#8. Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#9. No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.
Seneca.
#11. Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#12. Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [ ... ] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.
Aristotle.
#13. She was a freak, and she'd never given less of a fuck.
Kit Rocha
#14. I needed a fresh start, away from the memories that we had made for him, away from the home that didn't feel like my own anymore.
Away from the people that had been ready to welcome him.
Away from Honour and Ali.
Ruth Ahmed
#15. Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves - sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
Gris Grimly
#16. You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away
Al-Hasan Al-Basri
#17. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
Tori Amos
#19. The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
Alice Walker
#20. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.
William Muir
#21. Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger
#22. We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
Thomas Jefferson
#23. The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that part of you that was born into time, that matures in time, or at least grows older in time and then decays and passes away.
Gary Zukav
#24. I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.
Elton John
#25. I would say, however, that romantic sentiment is a keen and pathetic sense of time, a few hours of amorous delight, the idea that everything passes away; a deeper sentiment for autumn, for twilight, for the passing nature of our own lives.
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.
Peggy Toney Horton
#28. There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.
Francois Cluzet
#30. My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.
M.J. Chrisman
#31. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
H.G.Wells
#32. No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
Haruki Murakami
#33. Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
#34. Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
H. Rider Haggard
#35. It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.
Joseph Addison
