
“5051. Time devours all things.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The quote "Time, the devourer of all things." is famous quote by Ovid (-43–17 BC), Roman poet.
Book XV, 234
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Tempus edax rerum.
“5051. Time devours all things.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Context: O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
“What's not devoured by Time’s devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?”
Art of Politics (1729).
Vol. I, Part III, Ch. 2 General Aspects of the Special-Creation-Hypothesis
Principles of Biology (1864)
“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
Source: Bazaar of the Bizarre (pp. 233-234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)
“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).