Brightness Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

— John Berger

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a…

— Bertrand Russell

“IMPERMANENCE "Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing, continuously, even the happily consecrated design. Life blows away, always: pillars already rise without connection, carrying nothing…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

— Ivan Bunin

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout…

— Anonymous

Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of…

— Arthur Bryant

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without…

— Anne Bradstreet

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

— Edgar Lee Masters

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year,…

— Thomas Nash

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

— Anonymous