Passings Quotes

1080 Passings quotes by 857 unique authors

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it. — Charles Dickens
Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine… — Douglas Coupland
When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes… — Maggie Stiefvater
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field… — Terry Pratchett
I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. — Meg Rosoff
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a… — E. M. Forster
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat. — James Tiptree Jr.
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only… — Howard Thurman
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might… — Charles Spurgeon
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never… — Sarah Dessen
We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who… — Anna Godbersen
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent.… — Sean Covey
Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing… — Joseph Delaney
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. — Mario Puzo
Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? — P. C. Cast
I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that… — Jodi Picoult
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She'd ended up passing out, and sometime later, John must have gotten up to use the loo and left the light on. Probably to make… — J R Ward
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That… — Bret Easton Ellis

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