Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

Time takes all and gives all.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

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

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

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

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

Time is the devourer of all things.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.