John Dryden Quotes

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

The past is just something that's over.

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

We can never go back.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Time passes irrevocably.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.