Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Time is the devourer of all things.

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

Time bears away all things.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Time destroys everything.

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time stays, we go.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

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?

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Time is not kind to everything.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

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

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

All things which exist in time must perish

How terrible a thing time is.

Time is undefeated.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.