Quotes About Passage

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any life passage may be at the heart of healing, our healers -declared or undeclared - will help people use the power of dreaming to move beyond personal history into a bigger story that contains the juice and sense of purpose to get them through.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

many queer things passed through it as through

Subjects under discussion droned about me swooped and twittered like birds of passage and birds of prey.

But if they don't try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives, I will wonder whether they had missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.

And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to entertain some doubts. The approach was not such as to prepossess people—an ill-smelling, dark passage, a staircase half-lighted by bars through which stole a glimmer from a neighboring yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.

No one knows where time goes, all the same it disappears.

lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.

Never trembling at that void where, Imagination damns itself to pain, [715] Striving towards the passage there, Round whose mouth all Hell's fires flame: Choose to take that step, happy to go Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Death's a path we're all on, son

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

To die is landing on some distant shore.