Patti Smith Quotes

You can't halt time.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

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

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

How terrible a thing time is.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Time moves on for everyone.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

Time bears away all things.