Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides… — Rajneesh
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of… — Jacquetta Hawkes
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the… — Samuel Johnson
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — James Madison
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side. — Alexander MacLaren
How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism… — Adolf Hitler
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite… — Danny Glover
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are… — Joseph Campbell
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. — Dirk Benedict
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,… — Barbara Brown Taylor
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare… — Unknown Author
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. — John Henry Newman
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.… — Emile M. Cioran
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault
But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned… — Gautama Buddha

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