inevitability of time Quotes

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

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.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' he said.

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

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

How soon will time cover all things.

The world is a clock winding down.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.