Quotes About Passage

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

Death is the beginning of something.

As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun.

How the hours can pass with mere kissing is lost to me now, along with the rest of my youth.

Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

In de stiltes tussen de ogenblikken sijpelden de jaren weg.

Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua y recordar que el tiempo es otro río, saber que nos perdemos como el río y que los rostros pasan como el agua.

Yo subrayé cierto pasaje en el manual de Leusden; ese pasaje manifiesta que los hebreos computaban el día de ocaso a ocaso; ese pasaje da a entender que las muertes ocurrieron el cuatro de cada mes. Yo mandé el triángulo equilátero a Treviranus. Yo presentí que usted agregaría el punto que falta.

Desde o crepúsculo do dia até ao dia da noite, toda uma vida inteira.

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind

Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us. Our life passes in transformation. And the external dwindles away.

Time like space, is part of the permanent context of life. Time does not pass, we pass.

I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of shadows that had fallen on it in their swift and final passage. . .

Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was "the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations.