march of time
Time's relentless passage
The march of time is the relentless, unstoppable passage of time, often invoked to explain how things change or fade: The march of time has transformed this neighborhood, Nothing can withstand the march of time.
The phrase personifies time as an advancing force, steady and indifferent to human wishes.
- passageSegment of text
- agingGrowing older over time
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- clockDevice displaying time
- hourglassGravity-powered sand timer
tick tock · fleeting · years · decades · centuries · relentless · unstoppable · ticking · sands · erosion · wrinkles · gray hairs · generations · history · days gone by · inevitable · footsteps · rhythm
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
march of timestandstill
Total cessation of movement
timelessness · eternity · stasis · frozen moment · suspended animation
march of timeimmutability
Inability to change
changelessness · permanence · stagnation · constancy · unchangingness
march of timeeternity
Boundless temporal existence
immortality · timelessness · the eternal · everlasting life · agelessness
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