Sara Teasdale Quotes

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

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

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

We're not getting any younger.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

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.

Time moves on for everyone.

You can't halt time.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.