Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1369 authors
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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
— Douglas Adams
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Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that…
— Margery Williams
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An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together…
— Nikki Gemmell
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There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since…
— Dian Fossey
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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has…
— Libba Bray
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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was…
— Alice Sebold
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You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new…
— Yahtzee Croshaw
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Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.…
— Anne Rice
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another…
— Neil Gaiman
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to…
— Richard Paul Evans
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A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend…
— Terry Pratchett
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I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.
— Emily Bronte
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No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he…
— Sarah Dessen
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