Passing Quotes
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.
Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.
I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.
You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.