Lionel Shriver Quotes

Time bears away all things.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

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

Time takes all and gives all.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Time is the fire in which we burn.

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

Time destroys everything.

How terrible a thing time is.

Time is undefeated.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

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

All things are subject to decay and change.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

All things must pass.