Passing Away Quotes

190 quotes by 160 authors

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother,… — Annie Besant
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. — Thomas Carlyle
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Robert Baker Aitken
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they… — Zhuangzi
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it… — William James
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. — Ovid
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. — Saint Augustine
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. — Marcus Aurelius
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away… — Johann Gottfried Herder
Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not… — George Harrison
Remember, 'Even this will pass away.' — Chinmayananda Saraswati
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will… — Aristotle
Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more. — Sun Tzu
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded… — David Spangler
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't… — Saint Augustine
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it… — Suzanne Segal
This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with… — Johan Oscar Smith

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