Quotes About Passage

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Death's long anabasis.

Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.

It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the passage back to daily life. Each time, the passage became more difficult.

Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.

I really think this is why people have faces, to hide their souls. Has to be, or every street… would be a passage through hell.

There are not many such as I on the road today, pleading passage, claiming the alms of roadside charity.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

The quality of a person's leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

Understanding the meaning of a biblical passage involves the whole person — mind, emotions, body, and so on. Unbelievers, by definition, do not accept the things of the Spirit of God.

It didn't seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime when you look back and think of a time so far away that you can't clearly remember what happened yet a time that has gone so quickly it seems only a minute ago it started.

This is what almost all parents want for their children: a lifetime of happiness and an easy passage.

A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.

Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make safe passage possible and visible.

sterven is het openen van een andere deur, een onbekende en nog nimmer betreden kamer van een vreemd huis

He has done with roofs and men,Open, Time, and let him pass.

once inserted into the cosmos, once his individual life is set going in harmony with the cosmic order, the wise man understands that we simple mortals are merely a fragment of this whole, an atom of eternity, so to speak, one element of a totality that cannot disappear. So that, ultimately, for the sage, death ceases to be truly real. In a nutshell, death is but a passage from one state to another—and, considered as such, it should no longer hold any terrors for us.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.