Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel… — Sarah Dunn
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… — Alfred North Whitehead
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges… — Peter Matthiessen
Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled… — Cassandra Clare
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was… — Nicholas Sparks
Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore.… — Rachel Naomi Remen
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and… — Nicole Krauss
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. — Jeannette Walls
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Time means little; I never notice its passing. — Stephenie Meyer
How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. — Jane Yolen
A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is… — Jerry Spinelli
Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to… — Bram Stoker
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it. — Andre Malraux
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea;… — James M. Barrie
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and… — Justin Cronin
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide… — Richard Linklater
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if… — Charles Bukowski
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now… — Patti Smith
Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine… — Stephenie Meyer
This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way… — Carrie Underwood
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when… — Deb Caletti

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