Quotes About Passing

These were our monuments, the physical signs of our passing, in the color of the door, in the screw holes and the edge marks of our sign. They held the shadow of us. Our ghosts lingered at this corner.

At one point in the course of this discussion, the idea took possession of us that culture was a peculiar process passing over human life and we are still under the influence of this idea.

Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world.

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

Memories, like everything else, are momentary.

Life is but a breath.The end of life is the last breath of a man.

If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

But for a little while," Francine said, "you will be here;

El tiempo pasaba. Era un hecho nada difícil de probar llegado el caso, aunque sucedían muy pocas cosas.

Perhaps love could come complete from the start. The passing of time, the creation of a history, was needed only to verify irrefutability.

Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life. The

Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness of time. Those who are not aware of time passing do not get bored. It's not the time that passes, it's the time that doesn't pass.

In greatest minds' great thoughts earth's passed; betimes Fatal, foreshape the future.

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

She had rheumatism too, but Belinda realized that she would have to have something out of self-defence and perhaps with the passing of the years it had become a reality. One never knew.

If in one's life a man can but find one truth, and pass it on to those who come after him, he has done well. But

Spring passes and the birds cry out—tears in the eyes of fishes

It is easier to die than to remember.