Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

The present will not long endure.

Time is the devourer of all things.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time stays, we go.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

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

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

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

Nothing can be grievous that is but once

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

You can't halt time.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.