John Updike Quotes

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

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.

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

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

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

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Time is not kind to everything.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

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

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

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

You can't halt time.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.