Chinese Proverb Quotes

Time destroys everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time is death.

Time is not kind to everything.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

How terrible a thing time is.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru