Passed Quotes

1736 quotes by 1369 authors

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas… — Richard Baxter
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for… — Carson McCullers
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain… — Robin Hobb
Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm. — Christopher Paolini
Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you… — P. C. Cast
I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich… — Jennifer Armintrout
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now… — Terry Pratchett
The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in… — Douglas Adams
Then, Ã‰owyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there… — Natalie Goldberg
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. — Margaret Thatcher
He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just… — Jonathan Stroud
And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to… — Agatha Christie
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived… — James A. Baldwin
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… — Thornton Wilder
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth… — Barbara Kingsolver
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the… — Elizabeth Gaskell

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