river of time
Life's continuous current
River of time is a poetic metaphor for the continuous, unidirectional flow of time—always moving forward, carrying everything with it.
The image suggests time as something we're borne along by rather than something we control: We're all floating down the river of time.
Like a river, time cannot be reversed or stopped.
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- currentDirected flow of charge
- streamSteady continuous flow
- ebb and flowCyclical rise and decline
- eternalLasting without end
passing · fleeting · hourglass · sand · memory · drift · endless · journey · moments · continuum · tide · ages · epochs · waters · destiny · chronicle · passage · downstream
- poetic phraseshappily ever after, star-crossed lovers, sweet sorrow, eternal flame, golden hour
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- metaphorsbroken heart, dead metaphor, mixed metaphor, extended metaphor, life journey
- River ThemesNile, Thames, Amazon, Ganges, riverboat
temporal flow vs stasis
river of timefrozen moment
Time suspended midstream
eternity · timelessness · stasis · standstill · suspended animation
river, rivers, riverine, riverbed, riverbank, time, times, timed, timing