Top 100 Passes By Quotes
#1. Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.
Dogen
#2. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
Thomas Berry
#4. As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#5. We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears.
It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
Stephen Fry
#6. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.
Thomas Pynchon
#7. Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?
Gerard Majella
#9. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
#10. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
#11. Dogen Zenj rightly said that, 'Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken, take heed and not squander life'.
Reiju Gensho
#12. Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Miguel De Cervantes
#13. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#15. Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by.
Ignazio Silone
#16. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#17. I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back.
Suzanne Collins
#19. Another day another life
Passes by just like mine
It's not complicated
Another mind
Another soul
Another body to grow old
It's not complicated
Ed Sheeran
#20. Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?
Kelly Braffet
#21. Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#22. The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
Sappho
#23. Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.
Kahlil Gibran
#24. Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
John Steinbeck
#25. The Quran refers to "those who followed him in the hour of difficulty." How beautiful the Quran's expressions are. It refers to difficulty as an hour that passes by quickly and then is over, not as something that overwhelms one's whole life
Salman Al-Ouda
#26. You two would make a cute couple, she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.
But we would.
We would make a cute couple.
A.S. King
#27. Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains
Rajneesh
#28. POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret
Pierre Reverdy
#29. Each moment passes by and we do not even realize this. What we ought to cherish, we actually perish!
Sanchita Pandey
#30. If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
J.D. Salinger
#31. Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
Billy Joel
#32. Sweet crescent moon, up in the sky. You sing your song sweetly sunshine passes by. ...
Marissa Meyer
#33. Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other
people passes by, far in the distance.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#34. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change.
Victor Pelevin
#35. Along the Chilean coast, with cold and winter,
when rain falls washing the weeks.
Listen: solitude becomes music once more,
and it seems its appearance is that of air, of rain,
that time, something with wave and wings, passes by,
grows. And the harp awakes from oblivion.
Pablo Neruda
#36. With every day that passes by, I realize more and more
That regardless of the reasons why, when nothing's certain, change is sure.
S.M. Royston
#37. Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
Rajneesh
#38. I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.
Rabindranath Tagore
#39. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Ray Stevens
#40. The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.
Haruki Murakami
#41. Life isn't gonna be here forever. It passes by quickly and the time is lost, so don't waste it.
E.K. Blair
#42. Moving islands in the ocean of sky.
Beautiful white curtains in the sky,
Veiling and unveiling portions, as time passes by.
I watch clouds, when my mind feels clouded.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#43. On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.
William C. Bryant
#44. Life passes by in a second; we are like mushrooms in the forest, eternal today and rotten tomorrow...
Damian Maher
#45. She who passes by rosemary and doesn't pick it neither had love nor dreams of it.
Isabella Dusi
#46. When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
A.W. Tozer
#47. Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep
and a million more that wake up as each second passes by ...
And it's insanity inside
but I can no longer keep quiet
Oh, I can't speak as well
I need to write
I have to write ...
Sanhita Baruah
#48. Then I learnt of "white Christmas", which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#49. Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.
A.E. Housman
#50. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
Richard Curtis
#51. A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
C.P. Cavafy
#52. The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family ... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.
Pope John Paul II
#53. Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part ... I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.
Nicholas Sparks
#54. We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.
Ray Bradbury
#56. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.
Gavin Mills
#57. If you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.
David Baldacci
#58. Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes.
Amanda Leigh
#59. There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
Tadeusz Borowski
#60. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.
Don Cupitt
#61. We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#62. Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
Art Donovan
#63. He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity ... hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
Baruch Spinoza
#64. The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Samuel Johnson
#65. We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.
Deborah Meier
#66. And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced - mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes - would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?
Rinker Buck
#67. That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.
Howard Nemerov
#68. Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Matthew Arnold
#69. When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated.
Frederic Bastiat
#70. And remember this: take the hard road, not the easy one. The road that leads to life is a hard one, and it passes through a narrow gate, but the road to destruction is easy, and the gate is broad. Plenty take the easy road; few take the hard one. Your job is to find the hard one, and go by that.
Philip Pullman
#71. While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.
Elif Shafak
#72. Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.
Jacob Bannon
#73. Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
Steve Israel
#74. The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
Francois Fenelon
#75. What felt interminable the first time now passes with a quickness borne of familiarity. It makes me wonder if life seems to accelerate as we get older simply because our days and our experiences become routine. The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention.
Hugh Howey
#76. Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs
Hanshan
#77. I wish I could just sleep until this whole mess passes me by. And by this whole mess, I mean my life.
Melissa Foster
#78. He passes beyond me and stops by the new girl. "Here," he says. His voice is gentle, the voice of the old Alex, the Alex of my memories. "I brought you some water. Don't worry. It's clean.
Lauren Oliver
#79. When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.
Carl Henegan
#80. The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#81. most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all are works of art, whose life endures by the side of our own that passes away.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#82. All I want is to be by your side. When you are not around, I feel time passes too slowly. But when I have you with me, time seems like flying.
Auliq Ice
#83. An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
Frederick Lenz
#85. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg
#86. Here you start by selecting a barrier. If you bet "Touch" and the price of the asset "touches" (meaning it is equal to or passes through) that barrier at any time up until expiration you win. Or select "No Touch" and you win if the price of the asset never touches the barrier until expiration time.
Jose Manuel Moreira Batista
#87. You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Wendell Berry
#88. Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington
#89. He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
James Joyce
#90. Many people stimulate that good serotonin feeling by trying to rescue others. Feeling like a hero is a reliable way to stimulate your serotonin. But the good feeling soon passes and you have to rescue again. Sometimes rescuers reward bad behavior in others because they are so eager to rescue.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#91. Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
#92. Passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After
Albert Schweitzer
#93. What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.
Karen Russell
#94. The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security, is rarely cajoled, least of all questioned. Much of the magic of of life space contrast has passed out of North American life.
Geoff Mains
#95. If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.
Christina Applegate
#96. We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is not a subjective sensation of peace; if we are in Christ, we are in peace even when we feel no peace.
Brennan Manning
#97. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it ...
Baruch Spinoza
#98. All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.
Bob Dole
#99. I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
John Henry Newman
#100. In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
Guru Gobind Singh
