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Quotes About Passing

They'll die, and then they'll be dead.
~ Tobias Wolff
It was nothing really, just a passing shadow. And Eve had lived long enough to know that it was foolish to worry about a shadow, everybody had one, it was just the shape your body made when the sun came out.
~ Tom Perrotta
Siempre el pasado llega y se va sin importarle lo que deja.
~ Tomás Eloy Martínez
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.
~ Tony Wilson
Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.
~ Tony Wilson
Everyone's just passin' through Ohio to get to somewhere else
~ Tracy Chevalier
We were passing suits of armor at irregular intervals, and as usual, I had an uncomfortable feeling that I was under observation. "There's someone inside that armor, isn't there?" I whispered to Mr. George. "Some poor novice who can't go to the toilet all day, right? I can tell he's staring at us.
~ Kerstin Gier
Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.
~ Kevin Brooks
Det finns sådant som inte är ämnat att bli någonting mer än ett ögonblick.
~ Kevin Brooks
Grief is born. Grief matures. Grief passes. Despair, on the other hand, which arrives in an instant, ferments into depression. And although depression was months away, at least, already he felt himself not caring.
~ Kevin Guilfoile
Time, the thing we can't beat back... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die. Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.
~ Kiana Davenport
Kindred, League of Legends
~ All life is temporary.
Sometimes, death is a blessing.
~ Kindred, League of Legends
By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.
~ Koushun Takami
Each day a day goes by.
~ Carlo Goldoni
Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us? What does it really mean to say that time "passes"? What ties time to our nature as persons, to our subjectivity? What am I listening to when I listen to the passing of time?
~ Carlo Rovelli
What you'll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.
~ Carrie Fisher
This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home
~ Carrie Underwood
Full lasting is the song, though he,The singer, passes.
~ George Meredith
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
~ George R.R. Martin
Two days' ride to either side of the kingsroad, they passed through a wide swath of destruction, miles of blackened fields and orchards
~ George R.R. Martin
Methinks I see the wanton hours flee, And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
~ George Villiers
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
~ Patricia Fripp