Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton - Time Quotes

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When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The ages roll
Forward; and forward with them draw my soul
Into Time's infinite sea.
And to be glad or sad I care no more;
But to have done and to have been before
I cease to do and be!

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Archaeology has been called the handmaid of history; and, indeed, without its aid, history would as little represent the particular time it endeavors to recall as the drawing of a skeleton would represent the features and the form by which the individual human being was recognised while in life.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton