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Quotes About Passage

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
~ William Bligh
As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
~ Jeff Lynne
I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
The first requisite for immortality is death.
~ Stanislaw J. Lec
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
~ Stanislaw J. Lec
Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment inexorably turning into the past was to him precious, invaluable, and he witnessed its passing with a sense of inexpressible regret.
~ Stefan Grabi?ski
İlkbahardaki bir nehir gibi h?zl? ak?p gidiyor ömrümüz, ak?p giden ise geri gelmiyor.
~ Stefan Zweig
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
~ Thomas Browne
Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.
~ Na'ama Yehuda, Emilia
It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the extent to which the train robbery of 1855 shocked the sensibilities of Victorian England. At first glance, the crime hardly seems
~ Michael Crichton
Über Berg und Tal, über Feld und Flur werd ich vergehen, verwehen - Ach, alles ereignet sich einmal nur, aber einmal muss alles geschehen ...
~ Michael Ende
But even the longest and darkest of nights passes sooner or later. And when the pale dawn came, they glimpsed the Ivory Tower on the horizon.
~ Michael Ende
With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable.
~ Michael Lewis
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
~ Honore de Balzac
Tokyo: "When a passenger of the foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.
~ Bill Bryson
But China has gone too far in the South China Sea with the island building." For years, the Chinese had been building military bases on the islands. They had vastly expanded their footprint by dumping sand and muck dredged from the ocean on top of the rock and reef formations, building man-made islands in order to set up more bases with an alarming array of military installations in the highly valuable international trade passage that threatened the U.S. Navy's Pacific domination.
~ Bob Woodward
O fim da arte é doar somente. (...) Apagar-se no anonimato, Ocultando nossa passagem Pela vida, como à paisagem Oculta a nuvem com recato.
~ Boris Pasternak
Drácula) Qué pocos días son necesarios para que pase un siglo.
~ Bram Stoker
die letzte brücke.
~ Sylvia Plath
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. My words echo thus, in your mind
~ T.S. Eliot
The captain said that crossing from Liverpool to Dublin is often more difficult than the entire passage from the West Indies to England.
~ Julia Quinn
Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field...
~ Julien Gracq
the passage of time itself a kind of marvel
~ Justin Cronin
Time itself comes in drops.
~ William James