Passage of time Quotes

“Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.”

— Tim Lebbon

“The passage of time makes wizards of us all.”

— Rob Reid

“Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.”

— Truth Devour

“In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

— Veronica Roth

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

— Dirk Benedict

The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.

— Laeta Kalogridis

A girl's true beauty lies in her eyes which never fades with the passage of time.

— Rajdeep Sarkar

“... technically, just like with the rings of a tree or Carbon-14, it had to be possible to measure the passage of…

— Herman Koch

“Time doesn’t really ‘march on’. It tends to tip-toe. There’s no parade. No stomping of boots to alert you to its passing.…

— Heather Babcock

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

— Robert Breault

“But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its…

— Mark Nykanen

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

— Nicholas Sparks

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable…

— Patricia Hampl

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to…

— Adam Haslett

It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I…

— George A Tice

“You needn’t worry. I don’t think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all…

— Wynter Wilkins

“Contrary to popular opinion or the escapist trends of society, false hope is in no way better than a harsh truth. A…

— Northern Adams

“The passage of time. That is what is eternal, that is what has no end. And it shows itself only in the…

— David Szalay

“Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow,…

— Michael Montoure

“With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to…

— Michael Lewis

“I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our…

— Nancy B. Brewer

I Wonder, From Where Does This Wind Blow? There Must Be Someone Who Made Trees And Then Made Them Move To And…

— Simar

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is…

— Frank Herbert

“It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from boarding school,…

— Emma Cline

“On this small world, there will be no more real darkness. But there will always be the Dark. Go out tonight, Lady…

— Vernor Vinge

“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and…

— Ivo Andrić

“You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked,…

— Barbara Quick

You can do a lot with a commercial break - you can change days, you can suggest the passage of time. So…

— Matthew Weiner

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution…

— David E. Wilkins

“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of…

— Stanisław Lem

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the…

— Billy Collins

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human…

— Oliver Sacks

“Close your eyes. Be with me. Imagine that I am stepping off of the front stoop of my old apartment building. That…

— Kenneth Womack

“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction. When…

— Sarah Morgan

“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage…

— Sue Richardson

“To B-major or B-minor: that is the question. Consider that the major and minor chords are separated by the smallest tonal step…

— David B. Lentz