Neal Shusterman Quotes

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Time destroys everything.

Time is not kind to everything.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Time is the devourer of all things.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

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

Time moves on for everyone.

You can't halt time.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.