Passing Away Quotes
190 quotes by 160 authors
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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
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
— Robert Baker Aitken
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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
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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
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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
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
— Ovid
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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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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
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Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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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
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Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
— Sun Tzu
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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
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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
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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
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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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