Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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

Every fair from fair sometime declines

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

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

All things are only transitory.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

Time is not kind to everything.

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.

No blessing lasts forever.

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

The days of the giants are over.

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

Every great thing has to come to an end at some point. It's the way that it goes.

A power is passing from the earth.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

To grow old is to lose everything.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.