Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

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
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She… — Chris Bohjalian
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without… — Stanislaw Lem
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to… — Suzanne Collins
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in… — Salvador Plascencia
You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person. — Veronica Roth
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with… — James A. Baldwin
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his… — P.G. Wodehouse
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to… — Neal A. Maxwell
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our… — A.J. Cronin
But have you ever seen one?....They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage - " Man, she liked that… — Darynda Jones
Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like. — David Sedaris
Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up — John Howard Griffin

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