Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have… — Tennessee Williams
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept… — Anton Chekhov
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the… — Mortimer Adler
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop… — James Frey
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to… — Charles Frazier
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits… — Kurt Vonnegut
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a… — Markus Zusak
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to… — Haruki Murakami
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each… — Anita Shreve
... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through — Leonard Cohen
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most… — Sue Grafton
But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur;… — Susanna Clarke
Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward. — Joel Osteen
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. — P.D. James
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered… — Robert Fulghum
If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking… — Leslie Feinberg
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you… — Ellen Hopkins
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s… — Aidan Chambers
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of… — David Sedaris
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! — Audrey Hepburn

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