Quotes About Passage

You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

Time gives his hour-glass Its due reversal. Their hour is gone.

The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!

In Tristram Shandy there is a passage which describes how two nuns, believing that the only way to shift an obstinate mule was to say "bugger," are hampered by the knowledge that to utter such a word was most sinful. They split it up between them. Neither syllable on its own could possibly be sinful, so one shouts "bou, bou, bou" and the other "ger, ger, ger.

So joy and sadness are simply the passage to a greater or lesser power of acting, a greater or lesser ability to bring about certain effects.

12.00 midnight: whilst soaking in my bath I hear a distant shout. "I'm going to bed, but I don't necessarily have to go alo-o-ne." It's Dr Chapman in the passage. He repeats the line three times, like someone selling scrap iron and it recedes along the corridor.

The real passage occurs in the middle. Whatever direction determined by the swim, the ground lies dozens or hundreds of yards below the belly or miles behind and ahead. The voyager is alone. One must cross in order to know solitude, which is signaled by the disappearance of all reference points.

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there. Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son

The gate closes behinds us.

the definition of immortality centered on being remembered. The "living dead" were kept from fading into anonymity by being called to life in communal story, song, and dance. Remembering, whether by written or oral means, is an act of distillation. Some memories fall away; others survive, are embellished, and become stronger with the passage of time. Stories

Death is not an ending. It is a transformation. Death is the threshold of this life. Beyond it is something else, some mystery.

Life is a passage ; trees fall. Tread on the evil, put down my misery!

There is where they could get their tickets off this world.

The whole passage, from 2:17 to 4:25, is all about God's covenant with Israel and through Israel for the world and about the true worship at the heart of this covenant, the worship of the one true God, which replaces the idolatry of 1:18–23 and thus undoes the sin of 1:24–32.

We travel from birth to death, from past to future, and each second which ticks by is gone forever.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Beside the river there are two things you never forget, that the moment you look at a river that moment has already passed, and that everything is on its way somewhere else.

La vita non ci appartiene, ci attraversa. La

Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......

Hâtons-nous; le temps fuit et nous traîne avec soi: Le moment où je parle est déjà loin de moi.

For to arrive somewhere means to die!