Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

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
You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are… — Paul Bowles
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
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit… — Dave Pelzer
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
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him… — Oscar Wilde
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks
What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. — Justin Cronin
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
There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who… — Guy Gavriel Kay
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
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments. — Neal Shusterman
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

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