Time speeds away irretrievably

“Why is time like that? Why does it slow down in the places you don't want it to, but it speeds away when you're…

— Robin Roe

“Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.”

— Horace

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

— Walter Benjamin

Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by…

— Roberto Bolano

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..

— John Green

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

— Virgil

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;…

— Anonymous

“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast…

— Katherine Reay

My only aim is to clock a time that everyone remembers.

— Hima Das

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

— Edward M. Lerner

“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened,…

— Jacqueline Rayner

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

Time.The greatest creator, and the worst destroyer.

— Levi Keely