Richard Burton Quotes

Time is not kind to everything.

Time is death.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Time destroys everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

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

Time is that in which all things pass away.

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

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

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.

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

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.

You can't halt time.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

Nothing lasts forever

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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?

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

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