Quotes About Passing

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...

a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...

Death comes to all of us in the end.

Scandinavia through the Viking Age was for all intents and purposes an oral society, one in which nearly all information was encoded in mortal memory—rather than in books that could be stored—and passed from one memory to another through speech acts.

was only as he passed Diana's carriage that he slowed

A man is born. He dies.

breath—the last thing

Eli Goldratt passed away at his home in Israel on June 11th, 2011, in the company of his family and close friends.

And so i write to fix him in place, to pass time in his company, to make sure I remember, even though I know I will never forget.

Tis possible the Faerie Queen grew so linked with Gloriana in the minds of England's folk that Gloriana's passing could take the Mebd with it. And if the Mebd dies without loosing her bonds, all those Fae who are knotted in her hair die with her.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

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

He had died on his bed, the same bed that my father had died on many years earlier.

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Thus life passes quickly, meaningless. True discernment—hard it is to have! How therefore shall we ever find the means To curb the futile wanderings of the mind?

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

Our parts now, which perforce we must play - are not father and daughter, but old Abhorsen, making way for the new.

But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. . . . And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren. —Deuteronomy 4:9

Just as there never died a man, quoth he, But he had lived on earth in some degree, Just so there never lived a man, he said, In all this world, but must be sometime dead. This world is but a thoroughfare of woe, And we are pilgrims passing to and fro;

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.