Quotes About Passage

If there had been mile markers on the side of the road, they would have clicked off the years instead of the miles: 1994...1982...1974.

then abruptly turned and scurried away, darting into a passage a little further

Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life.I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.

The day time will stop moving, had I known and fulfillment will be the clock hands that will show many people the hour that passed and moment in which they are.

She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.

Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being—at my expense.

The moments follow each other; nothing lends them the illusion of a content or the appearance of a meaning; they pass; their course is not ours; we contemplate that passage, prisoners of a stupid perception. The heart's void confronting time's: two mirrors, reflecting each other's absence, one and the same image of nullity…

The Dying, is a trifle, pastBut living, this includeThe dying multifold—withoutThe Respite to be dead.

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

The Monk then undertook to tell us the history of the world -- an over-ambitious project, I thought, but it passed the time.

twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking.

The fitful sleeping makes the hours pass slowly; it seems to me the night has many nights in it?has years of nights!?through which, as if through drifts of smoke, I am compelled to stumble.

There are four elements to our passage, and they need to be put in outline form perhaps to see how this passage is put together: First, the claim of fulfillment (5:17). Second, an elucidation of the claim (5:18). Third, the consequences of the elucidated claim (5:19). Fourth, an elucidation of the consequences (5:20).