Quotes About Passage

When the verses on women are removed, the passage flows neatly without a break. This too suggests that these verses were inserted into the passage later.

And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, I get lost sometimes,' while laying two fingers on his folded arm.

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence. Death becomes a mere rite of passage, like puberty or a midlife crisis.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

he'd taken Squirrelflight to a place where only the dead could reach her.

No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

perché ogni copia di libro può appartenere a molte vite e i libri dovrebbero stare incustoditi nei posti pubblici e spostarsi insieme ai passanti che se li portano dietro per un poco...

Nous ne possédons réellement rien; tout nous traverse.

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.

Trenta, trentacinque, quaranta: gli anni erano sempre passati a farle visita come zie criticone, e sempre erano scomparsi senza lasciare traccia, senza fare rumore. E adesso ne era arrivato un altro.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

Of those cities will remain what passed through them, the wind!

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own.

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.

He noted that the same summer that witnessed the Constitutional Convention saw the passage of the Northwest Ordinance barring slavery north of the Ohio River.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.

People never die, but we travel from one world to another by leaving our flesh behind.