Greg Rutherford Quotes

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

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

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

I cannot compete with the grave.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

You're going to lose eventually. It doesn't matter who you are.