sands of time
Life's flowing grains
The sands of time is a poetic phrase for the passage of time, evoking an hourglass with sand flowing steadily from one chamber to another.
The image suggests time as something that slips away grain by grain, impossible to hold or reverse: The sands of time have not been kind to this old building.
Often used to reflect on aging, history, or impermanence.
- fleeting momentsBrief experiences that pass quickly
- vanitasPainting of mortality symbols
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- transienceBrevity of existence
- memento moriArtistic death reminder
dust to dust · hourglass · river of time · impermanence · moment · Ozymandias · entropy · mists of time · time flies · ancient · old as time · epoch · history · time's passage · temporality · winds · era · chronicles
- time sayingstime flies, time is money, time heals all wounds, time will tell, carpe diem
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
sands of timeeternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · permanence · infinity · the eternal · perpetuity
sands of timefrozen moment
Time suspended midstream
suspended animation · stasis · fountain of youth · turning back the clock · stopped clock
sands of timeeternal life
Unending conscious existence
immortality · deathlessness · transcendence · rebirth · renewal
sand, sandy, sands, sandbox, sanded, sandpaper, sandbag, sandpit, sandstone