Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage… — Neil Gaiman
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean,… — Stephen King
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the… — Cassandra Clare
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our… — Kevin Williamson
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens,… — H P Lovecraft
It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved,… — John Steinbeck
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage — A. R. Ammons
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the… — Giorgio Agamben
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour… — Flannery O'Connor
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that… — Karen Armstrong
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. — Russell Brand
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her… — John Crowley
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People… — Virginia Woolf
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through… — Carson McCullers
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand… — Emily Dickinson
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that… — Italo Calvino
I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage. — Tariq Ramadan
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes… — Honore de Balzac
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts… — Suzanne Brockmann
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless — Haruki Murakami

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