Quotes Tagged With :temporality

I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village....

...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,Living so little while we are alive;In eating, drinking,....

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures....

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom....

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments,....

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out....

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while....

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history.....

Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we....