Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

Great, it passes on (in constant flow). — Laozi
Something passes between us that I'm pretty sure both of us can feel, even though neither one of us says anything. It's not even any… — Lauren Barnholdt
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up… — Pierre Reverdy
There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your… — Saul Bellow
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time… — Victor Pelevin
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny,… — Will Self
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over… — Alberto Manguel
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes… — Brassai
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. — Carlos Castaneda
We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our… — David Weber
Time passes. That's for sure. — Eileen Myles
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust… — Fernando Pessoa
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments… — Italo Calvino
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the… — Harrison Schmitt
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. — Jane Wagner
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre. — Joe Klein
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... — John M. Geddes
Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent… — Theodor Fontane
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my… — Bret Easton Ellis
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten… — Charles Dickens
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where… — Ivan Turgenev
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so. — J D Salinger

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