Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among… — Virginia Woolf
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing… — William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. — William Butler Yeats
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us… — Henry B. Eyring
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the… — Douglas Rushkoff
Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear… — William Carlos Williams
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. — Mitch Albom
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there… — J.R.R. Tolkien
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What can you do when you don't fit in? What can you do when life seems to be passing you by?" "Follow me. I want… — Charles M. Schulz
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their… — Bill Bryson
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps… — Yann Martel
Keep passing the open windows. — John Irving
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing… — Nick Hornby
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental… — Emily Dickinson
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through! — Bob Dylan
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,… — Ann Brashares
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you… — Jane Austen

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