Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

— Ovid

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.

— Francis William Bourdillon

“I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll”

— James Patterson

“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would…

— Scott Turow

“The discovery of a new interest as the years roll on is one of life’s good surprises.”

— Peter Doherty

Seasons may change as the years roll on but memories of friends remain embedded in the mind and add much more meaning to life

— Neville Hine

If you haven't found it yet keep look. Don't settle. As with all matter of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And…

— Akeena

“How had I lost so much in such a short period of time? It would seem like leaving your family, living in some foreign…

— Kiera Cass

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

— Hector Berlioz

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

— Zygmunt Bauman

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

“Muchos de los ángeles de Dios no tienen alas...”

— José N. Harris