H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Time is death.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

All things which exist in time must perish

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

You can't halt time.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

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

Time stays, we go.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

We're here for such a short period of time.

Time destroys everything.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

How terrible a thing time is.

Time is undefeated.

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

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