Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for… — Joseph Campbell
...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just… — Mitch Albom
There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can… — Muriel Barbery
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come… — Will Durant
She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by. — Ilona Andrews
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past,… — Sebastian Barry
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but… — Leo Tolstoy
V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to… — J R Ward
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite.… — Sherwood Anderson
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at… — Peter Lerangis
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod… — Sarah Dessen
I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still… — Hal Borland
I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one. — Jodi Picoult
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too… — Elizabeth Gaskell
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be… — Victor Hugo
...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present… — Victor Hugo
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? — O.R. Melling
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one… — Aldo Leopold
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys… — Holly Black

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