31 Quotes About Passing-of-time

I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

The sky is a virginal blue translucence as though bereft for a fleeting moment of the effects of both light and darkness. A crimson streak smoulders over the outline of the hills, a simmering bloodline. There is a solitary canoe on the water. A cold white sheen rises from the water. She holds her breath. As if to stop any more time from passing, to stop the future happening. The peacefulness of the morning is almost heartbreaking in its fragility.

Prije ili kasnije sva zrnca pješčanoga sata moraju isteći kotrljajući se niz usko stakleno grlo, nesvjesna da možda odlučuju o nečijoj sudbini.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.