Simone Weil Quotes

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Time bears away all things.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Time moves on for everyone.

You can't halt time.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time is not kind to everything.