Quotes About Passing

Transient guests are we.

the lawyers' saying 'Le mort saisit le vif'? The dead grip the living. The prince dies but his power passes at the moment of his death, there is no lapse, no interregnum

He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands. No, It passes through them, alas.

No vivimos nosotros también de muertos? Pues ¿qué son las herencias?

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever Has come and gone before I knew.

Time went by so fast these days. There was some sort of malfunctioning going on with how fast Earth was spinning. Decades went by as quick as years once did.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going' Tennessee Williams

Time went by so fast these days. There was some sort of malfunction going on with how fast the earth was spinning. Decades went by as quick as years once did.

I spend the night that way, passing through layers of anxiety, humiliation, and despair. Somewhere close to dawn I lose some consciousness. It isn't sleep exactly, but I have to think of it as sleep because it's all I ever get anymore.

There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It's not like football, where there's a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you're talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don't retain muscle memory.

It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

Versatility, quality, good passing... I think all that catches coaches' eyes.

those with the right Run-Walk-Run adjustments are strong to the finish. They are the "passers" not the passees" during the last few miles—which is very empowering.

Ten minutes passed. A woman in a business suit walked by outside and climbed into her car—or at any rate, I assumed it was her car. If not, she was a very smooth car thief.

RIP, Rest in Peace, though what's the point of that? What else're the dead going to be doing? It's a better message than Good Luck, don't you think?

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

on short stories: "...something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.

All the girls walk by dressed up for each otherAnd the boys do the boogie woogieOn the corner of the streetAnd the people passing by just stare in wild wonderAnd the inside jukebox roars just like thunder

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

History is passing us by.