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title: "11 World Passing Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [“The world is passing away.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-francis-de-sales/the-world-is-passing-away/)

[St. Francis de Sales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-francis-de-sales/)

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> [All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/all-pleasure-in-the-world-is-a-passing-dream/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/religion-is-one-of-the-phases-of-thought-through-which-the-world-is/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-maxwell/if-you-are-not-moving-forward-the-world-is-passing-you-by/)

[John C. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-maxwell/)

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> [Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaine-hogan/becoming-an-artist-is-about-sitting-and-paying-attention-to-the-world/)

[Blaine Hogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaine-hogan/)

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> [“we all come into and go out of this world as passing gatherings of structured energy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-kabat-zinn/we-all-come-into-and-go-out-of-this-world-as-passing-gatherings-of/)

[Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-kabat-zinn/)

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> [“The external world is passing in time. The spirit is beyond time. The trouble is that we can’t see internal things as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/belzebuub/the-external-world-is-passing-in-time-the-spirit-is-beyond-time-the/)

[Belzebuub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/belzebuub/)

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> [In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gifford-pinchot/in-the-old-world-that-is-passing-in-the-new-world-that-is-coming/)

[Gifford Pinchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gifford-pinchot/)

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> [Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/eclipse-of-the-light-of-heaven-eclipse-of-god-such-indeed-is-the/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [“THE ROSE OF THE WORLD WHO dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/the-rose-of-the-world-who-dreamed-that-beauty-passes-like-a-dream-for/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/on-the-train-i-saw-that-world-passing-my-window-it-was-when-i-came-to/)

[Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/)

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