#passage

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#passage-of-time #time #future

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nights #passage-of-time #time #dreams

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#face #land #lifts #nation #passage

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#does #easy #head #living #make

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. ↗

— Heather Mills

#been #constant #denying #life #motive

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#history #kind #lots #models #passage

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done