Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward,… — Kenneth Grahame
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. — Wendell Berry
life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it — John Steinbeck
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make… — Jean Cocteau
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of… — Scott Turow
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts. — Philip Roth
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is… — Henry James
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is… — Marshall McLuhan
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you… — Keith Ablow
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose… — J.R.R. Tolkien
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it… — J M Coetzee
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head — Washington Irving
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a… — Michelle Richmond
Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across… — Jenny Downham
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties, but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes. — George Orwell
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared… — Rudyard Kipling
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of… — Seraphim Rose
The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their… — Paulo Coelho
Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. — Jane Austen
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of… — Vita Sackville-West
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his… — Guy Davenport

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