irreversible time Quotes

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

We can revere our past, but we cannot re-capture it.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

O, call back yesterday, bid time return

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.