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Quotes About Passage

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
~ Frank Herbert
At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.
~ Frederick Lenz
Time has passed through me and become a song.
~ Holly Near
Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.
~ Isaac McLellan
Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.
~ James Sallis
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.
~ Stephen King, Christine
The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
~ Omar Khayyam
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
But that's the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator
~ S.M. Boyce, Lichgates
It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
~ Randall Munroe
Perhaps with age came a more sedate appreciation of the passage of time.
~ Tim Lebbon, Alien: Invasion
Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
~ Kamand Kojouri
Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by
~ Anonymous
You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.
~ Kim Dong Hwa
A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.
~ David Mitchell, number9dream
Here is what William Beaumont had to say about saliva: "Its legitimate and only use, in my opinion, is to lubricate the food to facilitate the passage of the bolus through the [esophagus]." Beaumont was right about some things, but he was dead wrong about spit.
~ Mary Roach
I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light. I
~ Mary Shelley
but, oh! the weight of never-ending time—the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!
~ Mary Shelley
I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Five days and the train has passed through many underworlds.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The months and days are the travelers of eternity.
~ Barry Eisler