“O let not Time deceive you, you cannot conquer Time.”— W. H. Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening" (1937)Share
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”— W. H. AudenShare
“Time, in its stealthy gliding, cheats us all without our notice; nothing goes more swiftly than do the years.”— OvidShare
“Years following years steal something ev'ry day. At last they steal us from ourselves away.”— Alexander PopeShare
“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”— SenecaShare
“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”— Cesare PaveseShare
