Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes. James Frazer
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. Robert Penn Warren
Nothing recedes like progress. E. E. Cummings
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. Howard Hodgkin
He who does not advance recedes. Latin Proverb