Peter the Great Quotes

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

How terrible a thing time is.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Time destroys everything.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Time is not kind to everything.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

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

I cannot compete with the grave.

All things which exist in time must perish

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Death is an absolute marvel.

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

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

All things are only transitory.

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.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.