Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Time stays, we go.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

The present will not long endure.

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

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

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

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

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

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.