Paul Auster Quotes

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Time bears away all things.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

What came is gone forever every time

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

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

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

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

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

The morning Sunne never lasts a day.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.