Alice Hoffman Quotes

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

You can't halt time.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

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

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

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

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

Time moves on for everyone.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

The tide tarrieth no man.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.