Quotes Tagged With :temporality

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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