Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let… — Jon Krakauer
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a… — Sara Nelson
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one… — Richard Bach
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until… — Clive Barker
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket… — Jerry Seinfeld
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. — Erma Bombeck
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your… — Nicholas Sparks
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… — John Steinbeck
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book;… — Keith Donohue
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our… — Jose Saramago
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I… — Jonathan Swift
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel… — Guy de Maupassant
The worse the passage the more welcome the port. — Thomas Fuller
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault… — James Lee Burke
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its… — Alberto Manguel
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the… — Annie Dillard
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that… — Jodi Picoult
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even… — Homer
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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408 authors contributed a total of 469 Passage Quotes, led by these top contributors: