Alice Hoffman Quotes

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Time bears away all things.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

All things human change.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time brings all things to pass.

Time stays, we go.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.