Peter Handke Quotes

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

All things which exist in time must perish

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

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

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.