Passings Quotes

1080 Passings quotes by 857 unique authors

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was… — Richard Brautigan
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her… — Ian Mcewan
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely… — Haruki Murakami
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back… — Audrey Niffenegger
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost… — Tonya Hurley
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing… — Daniel Handler
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all… — James M. Barrie
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither… — Oscar Wilde
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came… — Evelyn Waugh
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly… — Malcolm Gladwell
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,… — Galileo Galilei
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out… — Terry Pratchett
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times… — John Grogan
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in… — Sarah Dessen
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end.… — Tobias Wolff
I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only… — P. C. Cast
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr

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