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Quotes About Passing

Such is time: everything passes, it alone remains; everything remains, it alone passes. And how swiftly and noiselessly it passes. Only yesterday you were sure of yourself, strong and cheerful, a son of the time. But now another time has come – and you don't even know it.
~ Vasily Grossman
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
~ Victor Hugo
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
~ Victor Hugo
He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone. a
~ Victor Hugo
Si vous voulez que je m'en aille, Pourquoi passez-vous par ici ? Lorsque je vous vois, je tressaille : C'est ma joie et c'est mon souci. Si vous voulez que je m'en aille, Pourquoi passez-vous par ici ?
~ Victor Hugo
Angie looked at her. There was a heavy sadness in her eyes. "I wish I could make everything okay. But some dreams just pass us by. It's the way life is.
~ Kristin Hannah
As she passed a café filled with German
~ Kristin Hannah
Monsters didn't live in your bedroom. They lived in your town or one just like it. They probably had jobs and neighbors and maybe waved to people passing by as they mowed their lawns.
~ Kylie Brant
Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.
~ L.F. Magister
insan öldü?ünde uzunca bir süre için ölür-
~ Leon Bloy
All in fashion passes.
~ lague louise
He was quiet, and had a shadow's talent for passing unremarked,
~ Laini Taylor
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
~ lamartine alphonse de
We're all feathers in the fire; time passes on us like a lick of flame, one minute we're there, the next we're gone, forgotten, as if we'd never been.
~ Catherine Cookson
Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Hoodies up, heads bent, they passed one another in silence, like monks on their way to matins.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Felicità da me provata nel tempo [4418]del comporre, il miglior tempo ch'io abbia passato in mia vita, e nel quale mi contenterei di durare finch'io vivo. Passar le giornate senza accorgermene; parermi le ore cortissime, e maravigliarmi sovente io medesimo di tanta facilità di passarle.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
A questa città vorrei dire: gli uomini passano, le idee restano. Restano le loro tensioni morali e continueranno a camminare sulle gambe di altri uomini.»
~ Giovanni Falcone
El arte más perfecto, la música, late, pasa y desaparece.
~ Giovanni Papini
A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...
~ Max Lerner, 1953
What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
Death is just a final breath.
~ Terri Guillemets
Full many a man, both young and old, Is brought to his sarcophagus, By pouring water, icy cold, Adown his warm æsophagus.
~ Foote's Monthly, 1890