Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

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
It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a… — John Crowley
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
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
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about… — Wendell Berry
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long… — Helene Hanff
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
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a… — Cassandra Clare
I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone… — Helene Hanff
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for… — Wayne Thomas Batson
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes… — Becca Fitzpatrick
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

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