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Eclogues · 30 BC

★ 1.3

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems · 1686

★ 1.8

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Noah Cross

Chinatown · 1974

★ 1.9

Novel

But time...how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 1.9

Novel

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters · 1688

★ 1.9

Poem

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age — Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

1835

★ 1.9

Novel · Historical literature

We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.1

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Time eases all things.

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex · 430 BC

★ 2.2

Scientific literature

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.

Aristotle

Physics · 350 BC

★ 2.3

Novel

Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

1951

★ 3.5

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sir Thomas Browne

Hydriotaphia · 1658

★ 3.5

Hymn · Song

Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.

Isaac Watts

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past · 1719

★ 3.5

Poem · Political literature

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

1729

★ 3.5

Poem

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 3.5

Poem

Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which moulders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

Sir Walter Scott

Harold the Dauntless · 1817

★ 3.5

Poem

What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.

Horace

Odes · 23 BC

★ 3.7

Novel

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 3.7

Poem

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

W.B. Yeats

1933

★ 3.7

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down.

Sonny Weaver Jr.

Draft Day · 2014

★ 3.7

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