Quote by Sylvia Plath

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

“Backward I look upon my life, And see one waste of storm and strife, One wrack of sorrows, hopes, and pain, Vanishing to arise…

— Patrick Branwell Brontë

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“Things vanished. People vanished. Clouds gave way to sun gave way to night. Only feelings, like spirits, endured, branded to the back of our…

— Alan Heathcock

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty…

— Andrew Marvell

“Into darkness will I fade, Into a night that Man has made, But through that gloom shall gleam the sun When I am lost,…

— Michael Green

“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes…

— Percy Shelley

“We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not to be…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“October" I remember how I would say, “I will gather These pieces together, Any minute now I will make A knife out of a…

— W.S. Merwin

“Come fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of repentance fling: The bird of Time has but a little way…

— William De Witt Hyde

“Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. Longing to be touched by you, will perhaps,…

— Preeti Bhonsle