Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is… — Charles Baxter
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do — Randy Pausch
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our… — Gaston Bachelard
What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not… — Rajneesh
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for… — Frank Herbert
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important,… — Seth Grahame-Smith
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. — Joyce Johnson
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks
I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly… — Shan Sa
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a… — Lawrence Durrell
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are… — Vincent Price
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges… — Peter Matthiessen
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for… — Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,… — Vincent Price
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware… — Elie Wiesel
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should… — Kate Morton
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he… — Ayn Rand
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks
For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever… — Ernest Hemingway

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