Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

Time is death.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

The only certainty life contains is death.

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Today is not forever.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

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

Death is an absolute marvel.

Time takes all and gives all.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.