Cornelia Parker Quotes

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Time destroys everything.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Time is death.

How terrible a thing time is.

Time is undefeated.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

Birth was the death of him.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Time stays, we go.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

All things are only transitory.