Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Time is not kind to everything.

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

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

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.

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

You can't halt time.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

Time bears away all things.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.