Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come… — Danielle Steel
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other… — Kate Chopin
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was. — Patricia Briggs
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time.… — Ann Voskamp
You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his… — David Wilkerson
You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling… — Edvard Munch
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain… — Cormac McCarthy
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through… — Margaret Atwood
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against… — Wilferd Peterson
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have… — Anais Nin
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. — Michelle Moran
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both… — Muriel Barbery
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate… — David James Duncan
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback… — Becca Fitzpatrick
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that… — Robin Wasserman
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till… — Haruki Murakami
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But… — Terry Brooks
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his… — Charlotte Bronte
It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite:… — Ann Voskamp
...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun. — Ray Bradbury

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