Passing Quotes

1379 quotes by 1082 authors

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling… — Rajneesh
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he… — Paulo Coelho
America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in… — Nikita Khrushchev
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. — Robert Bresson
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had… — Lewis H. Lapham
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.… — H.G. Wells
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. — Robert Breault
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and… — Richard Mabey
They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they… — Alan Parry
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about… — J. Neil Schulman
Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the… — Otsuichi
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s -… — Thandie Newton

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