Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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

Time passes irrevocably.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Time is undefeated.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Every hour has its end.

Time is flying never to return.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Time brings all things to pass.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

It's later than it's ever been.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

No court can make time stand still.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

Time moves on for everyone.

You can't halt time.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.