Passings Quotes

#1. What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#2. Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

Erica Jong

#3. Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Albert Einstein

#4. Is she not passing fair?

William Shakespeare

#5. I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

George Gissing

#6. And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

Robert Burns

#7. There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

E.F. Schumacher

#8. Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

#9. So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

Edmund Spenser

#10. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

#11. I actually prefer Abby," she said.
"I'm sorry?"
"Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad.

David Pogue

#12. Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

#13. With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Amy Tan

#14. All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

David Gemmell

#15. You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.

Nick Saban

#16. 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 ...

Emily Carr

#17. Forever was knowing moments of weakness didn't equate to an eternity of them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

David Gemmell

#19. The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

Terry Pratchett

#20. I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Robert Menzies

#21. With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

Rumi

#22. The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

Michael Pollan

#23. A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato