Quotes About Passage

Death is the gate of life.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

Time is long but life is short.

How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!

And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, needles of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible.

Je suis réduite aux initiales pour désigner celle qui m'apparaît maintenant comme la première des femmes qui se sont relayées auprès de moi, ces passeuses dont le savoir, les gestes et les décisions efficaces, m'ont fait traverser, au mieux, cette épreuve.

L'escalier qui monte de la cuisine aux chambres s'est révélé trop étroit pour le passage du cercueil.

Il m'arrivait d'oublier que j'était enceinte de deux mois. C'est sans doute à cause de cet effacement de l'avenir, par lequel l'esprit endort lui-même l'angoisse de l'échéance, qu'il sait pourtant inévitable, que des filles laissaient passer les semaines, pus les mois, jusqu'au terme.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.

To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.

December tumbled like a dead leaf from the calendar.

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down

E assim avançámos rumo à morte, pela frescura do crepúsculo

La morte è la curva della strada Morire è solo non essere visto. Se ascolto, sento i tuoi passi Esistere come io esisto La terra è fatta di cielo Non ha nido la menzogna Mai nessuno si è smarrito Tutto è verità e passaggio

Death is a bend in the road, / To die is to slip out of view. from "23 May 1932

Todo cuanto vive, vive porque cambia; cambia porque pasa; y, porque pasa, muere.

We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm.

La muerte es un recodo del camino, morir es sólo no ser ya visto.