Art Blakey Quotes

Time destroys everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time stays, we go.

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

Time is not kind to everything.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

Nothing can be grievous that is but once

Time is undefeated.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Time takes all and gives all.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.