All time Quote by Adelaide Anne Procter

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

— Cormac McCarthy

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that…

— Marcus Aurelius

“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I walk the sand alone, and feel it stirring as I roam, upon this breathing earth, where wave on wave begins new birth. I…

— Craig Froman

“Most often, we walk without understanding this movement, without hearing its step, but knowing that we must go beyond an emptiness in us, and…

— Anonymous

“Each one is traveling his own way ad though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits;…

— Henry Miller

“In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert…

— Aleister Crowley

This very same place that we be at Passing through the sands of times

— Rose

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the…

— Georges Bataille

“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of…

— Irving Stone

“Since then many years have passed, and in those years I have often thought how strange are the ways of Fate. Set on one's…

— Miklós Bánffy

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

— William Shakespeare