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Quotes About Passing

Collin gave a dazed wave. As the bus chugged slowly along, passing within inches of his face, his stunned reflection gazed back at him in the glass windows as they passed by.
~ Robin Parrish
Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Sweetgrass is best planted not by seed, but by putting roots directly in the ground. Thus the plant is passed from hand to earth to hand across years and generations.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.
~ Robin Wasserman
Every passing moment is the passing of life; every moment of life is life itself.
~ Lisa See
God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
They were like some popular cry, some vehement fancy, that comes down on a page of history for a day, and passes, leaving no other record at all except those lines on one page. And
~ Lord Dunsany
And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass.
~ Lorrie Moore
was nine when she passed. The last thing she told us was Be good to one another.
~ Louis Bayard
For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.
~ Louis L'Amour
Passed away" seemed like an appropriate way of putting it. Over the next few days, I had this recurring image of Trapp sitting at the bridge table. He reaches into the bidding box, removes a pass card, and places it on the table. Then he slowly vanishes.
~ Louis Sachar
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
~ Louisa May Alcott
A coisa mais deselegante do mundo é morrer
~ Rubem Fonseca
She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ...
~ Rudyard Kipling
She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own
~ Salman Rushdie
He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.
~ Salman Rushdie
Time had passed, it was hard to know how much time, because time was strange now, stretching, compressing, unreliable. A week could be a month long. A lifetime could pass in a day.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
~ T. D. Jakes
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
~ Billie Jean King
Ah! It is precisely in this that we reveal our base material origins. Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or, even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
we are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Paid the last debt of nature
~ Alexandre Dumas
I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to classes, on the way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
~ Alice Munro
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
~ Alice Sebold