Donald Hall Quotes

What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

Much rain wears the marble.

The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

Time can make soft that iron wood.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

How soon will time cover all things.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

What we do have is nothin' but time. Welcome to the Shawshank Redemption of late night!

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Time has passed through me and become a song.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.