Top 100 Pass Through Quotes
#1. There's a hell all right. It's just not where people say it is ... It's here. It's life, or it's what we turn life into, I guess. It's like we have to pass through all this painful stuff to get to where we're supposed to be, on the other side.
Patrick Carman
#2. The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.
Ward Cunningham
#3. Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
A.A. Gill
#4. I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#5. I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
#6. Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it.
Isabel Allende
#7. From heart to heart
a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven.
Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven
than to pass through each others' eyes
Bill Knott
#8. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt.
Yann Martel
#9. Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.
Dawson Trotman
#10. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
Jane Austen
#11. The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
Rumi
#12. You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.
Chloe Thurlow
#13. Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#14. When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.
Robert Goolrick
#16. When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.
Joyce Banda
#17. The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.
Rajneesh
#18. Born of Sin, Made from Iron
To find the Light, Must Pass Through Fire
Anonymous
#19. I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. Isaiah 43:2
Beth Moore
#20. So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. My eyes are open," said Milo warmly, "and I see exactly what I expect to see. I see a man who is terribly wounded - because he has dared to pass through the fires of truth to the other side, which we have never seen. And then he has come back again - to tell us about the other side.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. I am no one's agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you know, draws its present unity from being conspired against. I do not know what would happen if the policy of believing in conspiracies were changed.
Hilary Mantel
#23. I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent.
Aleksandr Voinov
#24. I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream ... and life continues ...
Etty Hillesum
#25. As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
John Lancaster Spalding
#26. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.
Maggie Nelson
#27. We had sun, but we asked for a rainbow. We called the drizzle, but we got heavy rains! Now it's gone.. We are left with drizzle, waiting the sun light to pass through. When the sun shines tomorrow, only the drizzle is mine.. Rainbow is yours! And I'm deaf and you're blind!
Heshan Udunuwara
#28. Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
Simon Mainwaring
#29. What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence?
Slavoj Zizek
#30. You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
Frederick Lenz
#31. What's the use of having eyes if we can't see the world we pass through?
Matthew Pearl
#32. I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
#33. Another lesson for bookshop owners: "Learn how to listen yet let it pass through you." Thanks to some therapist friends, I have finally acquired that tough skill. But it wasn't part of our anticipated job description.
Wendy Welch
#34. The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men - Chan Buddhist
Richard Hooper
#35. I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so.
John B. S. Haldane
#36. Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#37. To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present
David Schlussel
#38. Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life. The
Ellen G. White
#39. A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
Mary Lascelles
#40. I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.
Rhys Darby
#41. All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Give me the ability to understand
to be more than just another man
to do the things I was sent here to do
and to touch the world gently as I pass through.
Javan
#43. But what a path it has been! I have had to pass through so much foolishness, so much vice, so much error, so much nausea and disillusionment and wretchedness, merely in order to become a child again and be able to start over. But all of this was just and proper.
Hermann Hesse
#44. The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
Boman Irani
#45. Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".
Napoleon Hill
#46. I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol
#47. I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.
Kathryn Sansone
#48. Letti wasn't born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.
S.R. Crawford
#49. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
Willard Wigan
#50. To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca.
#51. Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#52. If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.
Matthew Ashimolowo
#53. In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.
Steven Magee
#54. I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time ... You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.
Julie Anne Peters
#55. As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth ... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.
Emily Carr
#56. No, we don't feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is enough to put us to sleep.
Fernando Pessoa
#57. I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
Charlotte Bronte
#58. [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.
Vincent De Paul
#59. He continued: I should warn you that the chamber we are about to pass into does not literally exist within our planet. It is a little too ... large. We are about to pass through a gateway into a vast tract of hyperspace. It may disturb you.
Douglas Adams
#60. God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when we pass through our trials, people will see His perfect reflection in us.
Wendy Blight
#61. It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
Bran Ferren
#62. 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
#63. To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
Catherine Doherty
#64. The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#65. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
#66. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye, and what then? - S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae
Clive Barker
#67. Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.
Trevanian
#68. We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.
Raphael Zernoff
#69. Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#70. If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.
John Woolman
#71. How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
Anthony De Mello
#72. I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through. Flat and quiet.
Elizabeth Rosner
#73. One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
Dallas Willard
#75. Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
Leonard Bishop
#76. Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
Jacob Zuma
#77. Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just underneath it.
Margaret Atwood
#78. Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather.
Carlene Bauer
#79. Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
George A. Sheehan
#80. A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.
Mary Ruefle
#81. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'
James B. Martino
#82. To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Fran Lebowitz
#83. Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket,
sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street.
Thomas Pynchon
#84. You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lost walls should crack and fall down
Kahlil Gibran
#85. A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
Terence McKenna
#86. This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!
Pablo
#87. The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
("The Undying Thing")
Barry Pain
#88. Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.
Bill Bryson
#89. Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.
Monty Roberts
#90. We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
Marge Piercy
#91. Love the art, poor as it may be, that you have learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the gods with his whole soul all that he has, making yourself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.
Marcus Aurelius
#92. Your current condition is not your destiny. It is a temporary situation that we all have to pass through in our journey of life. Everybody has a story to tell.
Osunsakin Adewale
#93. My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
Antonio Porchia
#94. Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
Victor Hugo
#95. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
#96. Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.
Frederick Lenz
#97. The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
Bill Nye
#98. Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time. A curtain of purple wisteria partially conceals the entrance to a familiar garden ... In a wink, a lifetime, we pass through the infinite movements of a silent overture.
Patti Smith
#99. You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.
Timothy Simons
#100. Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.
Ryan Winfield
