--- title: "1 Passage Time Quotes By Ray Davies" description: "1 Passage Time quotes by Ray Davies. Plus more from Ray Davies and more Passage Time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/ray-davies-3711_alcohol_the-passage-of-time-eliminates-some-of-t_2059320.jpg" --- > [The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/the-passage-of-time-eliminates-some-of-the-more-intimate-details-of/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/ray-davies-3711_alcohol_the-passage-of-time-eliminates-some-of-t_2059320.jpg) ## More by Ray Davies > [You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/you-hate-me-and-i-hate-you-so-at-least-we-understand-each-other/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/everything-is-reduced-to-what-s-physical-in-the-end-because-it-s-the/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [True love is really animal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/true-love-is-really-animal/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/in-the-end-you-become-part-of-everything-you-hate-basically/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/compared-to-the-bugs-and-the-spiders-and-flies-i-am-an-apeman/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/people-take-pictures-of-the-summer-just-in-case-someone-thought-they/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/i-met-her-in-a-club-down-in-north-soho-where-you-drink-champagne-and/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/silly-boy-you-got-so-much-to-live-for-so-much-to-aim-for-so-much-to/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/i-looked-in-the-mirror-at-my-pigeon-chest-i-had-to-put-my-clothes-on/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/when-he-feels-the-world-is-closing-in-he-turns-his-stereo-way-up-high/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/i-think-when-you-write-songs-you-write-about-people-people-are-the/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/i-don-t-wanna-die-in-a-nuclear-war-i-want-to-sail-away-to-a-distant/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/why-stay-with-him-he-uses-you-just-like-a-human-punching-bag/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/at-one-time-they-ve-been-the-most-important-thing-to-me-so-i-can-t/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) > [We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-davies/we-are-the-draft-beer-preservation-society/) [Ray Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-davies/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/passage-time/ray-davies/#itemlist", "name": "1 Passage Time Quotes By Ray Davies", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. 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