Passed Quotes
1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors
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Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.
— Michelle Sagara
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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born…
— John Milton
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Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.…
— Beryl Markham
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Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he…
— Douglas Adams
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There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for…
— Anna Godbersen
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if you would one…
— John Marsden
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It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I…
— James Frey
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Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed…
— Mitch Albom
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At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was…
— Marcel Proust
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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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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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