Seneca the Younger Quotes

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time stays, we go.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

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

Time marks us while we are marking time.

The present will not long endure.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

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.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

How terrible a thing time is.

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

You can't halt time.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.