Quotes About Passing

as an eternal visitor. No life and no death in what I sense as a bird passing beyond nature. when I embrace you… — Mahmoud Darwish, from "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late," The Butterfly's Burden . Copper Canyon Press, 2006

Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

Andorinha Andorinha lá fora está dizendo: — "Passei o dia à toa, à toa!" Andorinha, andorinha, minha cantiga é mais triste! Passei a vida à toa, à toa . . .

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

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

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.

em.'' " 'Course you did,'' said Tom. "Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you'd be passin' the time a day with the hangman. Never seen sech a talker.

As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision.

Their neighbors in Penn Villas are strangers, transients – accountants, salesmen, supervisors, adjusters – people whose lives to them are passing can and the shouts of unseen children.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

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 onto future generations.

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

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of the song.

Don't lose consciousness of the now and reside in the past, life is to be lived as it passes by so fast.

All days will pass, all moments will last, each friend will part, it's a journey too fast.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it.