Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of… — Michelle Sagara
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers. — Michel de Montaigne
I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he… — Sarah Strohmeyer
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through — Paul Torday
If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard… — Sara Shepard
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… — Vincent Van Gogh
Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot… — Banana Yoshimoto
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry.… — Patricia Briggs
She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a… — Thomas Hardy
You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look. — Karin Slaughter
From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that… — Sarah Dessen
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she… — Cecelia Ahern
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They… — Karl Marx
I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop… — Madeline Miller
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock… — Mitch Albom
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on. — Jonathan Safran Foer
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet… — Frances Hardinge
...maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through... — Danielle Steel
Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the… — David Levithan
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by — Yann Martel
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness.… — Erin Morgenstern

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