Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on… — Caleb Carr
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end… — Saint Augustine
...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had… — Katherine Paterson
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,… — John Knowles
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs… — Michael Chabon
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right… — Sarah Dessen
the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by — Tom Waits
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of… — Alan Bennett
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to… — Edith Wharton
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in… — Blue Balliett
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. — Douglas Adams
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. — Haruki Murakami
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is… — Jack Gilbert
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical… — John Cage
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it,… — Haruki Murakami
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding… — Gregory Maguire
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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