Quotes About Passage

I am uncomfortably, acutely aware of the passage of time, and have lived much of my life with a sense that the time that I have been granted is, as they say, borrowed.

Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

The gate is the key to the kingdom.

It seemed right to do it this way, because the rite of passage is a magic corridor and so we always provide an aisle - it's what you walk down when you get married, what they carry you down when you get buried. Our corridor was those twin rails, and we walked between them, just bopping along toward whatever this was supposed to mean.

How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations.

each second that peeled itself off the clock and dropped onto that dirty bathroom floor.

That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Yes, it was clear: art goes by like life.

Y me sentí un transeúnte más que un día sería un transeúnte menos

The banner between sleep and waking had torn and now people and things were passing through it.

He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his that had got a naughty girl with child, whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Registration and cremation, they go together.

Most importantly, if we approach the passage with the assumption that the author was concerned with chronology, we miss the profound thematic point the author is making throughout this passage, namely, that God brings order out of chaos. 4.

The means we use to achieve our objectives in this world define the type of world we are going to live in. (speaking in deliberations prior to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

And when you died I took you down to the river. And when I died you waited for me by the shore. So it was that time passed between us.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.