Virgil Quotes

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Time passes irrevocably.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Time is long but life is short.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

Time bears away all things.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

All things must pass.

What came is gone forever every time

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

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

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

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Time takes all and gives all.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

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

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.