Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John DonneMots clés love beauty instability inconstancy passage-of-time precariousness
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)]
Mots clés reading books time passage-of-time
If the whole world I once could see
On free soil stand, with the people free
Then to the moment might I say,
Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
Mots clés freedom world time moments passage-of-time
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Neil GaimanMots clés future time passage-of-time
I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!'
'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering.
'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard.
Mots clés time youth old-age middle-age passage-of-time roman fable dialogue growing-old payne hope-and-despair
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
William ShakespeareMots clés time passage-of-time days nights
After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?
Umberto EcoMots clés truth past passion beauty war right justification mythology troy passage-of-time homer iliad
Steadfast Seas and Mountains
The lofty mountains and the seas,
Being mountains, being seas,
Both exist and are real.
But frail as flowers are the lives of men,
Passing phantoms of this world.
Mots clés passage-of-time fleeting-life
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Mots clés time passage-of-time
All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.
Mizuki NomuraMots clés passage-of-time healing-the-past
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