Passing Away Quotes
190 Passing Away quotes by 155 unique authors
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
— Ruth Pitter
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The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in…
— John Oliver
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The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
— Joseph Conrad
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Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way…
— Boethius
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We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated…
— Anaxagoras
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Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm…
— George MacDonald
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How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as…
— Gautama Buddha
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Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless…
— Gautama Buddha
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Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.'…
— Gautama Buddha
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You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
— Gautama Buddha
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All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.
— Gautama Buddha
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Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
— Unknown Author
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which…
— Mark Epstein
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Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in…
— Mark McGwire
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants…
— Keri Hulme
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Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you’re…
— Doreen Virtue
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The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
— Thomas a Kempis
Who Wrote These Passing Away Quotes
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