Quotes About Passing Through

#1. The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

Ram Dass

#2. Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Alexander Graham Bell

#3. I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. Again he felt in a profound way that he was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was bith connected, and passing through. Harold began to understand that this was also the truth about his walk. He was both a part of things, and not.

Rachel Joyce

#5. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Alexander Steele

#6. I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Keith Richards

#7. The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare

#9. He was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was both connected and passing through ... both a part of things, and not.

Rachel Joyce

#10. America was aptly described by George Bernard Shaw, who said that it was 'the only country which had gone from barbarism to decadence without once passing through civilization.' Guy

Maya Angelou

#11. 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.

Juliette Binoche

#12. Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

John Steinbeck

#13. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman

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

Michael Pollan

#15. Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

H. Richard Niebuhr

#16. No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.

Mollie Hunter

#17. If they past is a different country, the present is a spaceship passing through the void to the future.

Chloe Thurlow

#18. No matter the challenges you are passing through today; always remember you are not alone.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#19. I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

Tori Amos

#20. Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#21. Not everyone is meant to be in your life for the long run. Some are just passing through to lead us to those that should be.

April Mae Monterrosa

#22. The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Walter Savage Landor

#23. Soon I reveled in the very premises I had set aside and rationalized away: the preexistent Logos, the triune mystery, the radical depth of sin passing through the generations, the risen Lord and the grace of baptism.

Thomas C. Oden

#24. The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Ivan Pavlov

#25. Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#26. I'm starting to feel a little like I might fly away. Like everyone else has solid lives, and I'm just a particle, passing through.

Amy McNamara

#27. There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.

John Tracy Wilson

#28. Abby's eyes fell on a wooden sign hanging near the foot of his bed:I'm only passing through ... this world is not my home.

Karen Kingsbury

#29. I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

Barry Unsworth

#30. Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Eric Mazur

#31. Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

Frederick Lenz

#32. I want to create a foundation, like a maison, in my home in the Marais. I am going to leave everything there. I am only passing through. I'm not a proprietor of anything, even if I have homes and things.

Azzedine Alaia

#33. Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

Laurie Garrett

#34. A river passing through a landscape catches the world and gives it back redoubled: a shifting, glinting world more mysterious than the one we customarily inhabit. Rivers run through our civilisations like strings through beads,

Olivia Laing

#35. There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Fernando Pessoa

#36. The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

Iamblichus

#37. A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Clara Barton

#38. This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other
it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web.

Brigham Young

#39. I can't see you in Adehya. It's like right before my gran died. I saw her passing through this big wall of white light, and then. . .nothing." - Patrick

Lowvee Cole

#40. 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

Leonard Cohen

#41. We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Hal Sutton

#42. Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Danielle Steel

#43. How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

Craig Davidson

#44. I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Jodi Picoult

#45. Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

#46. As a result, Italians who today bear illustrious noble names are not necessarily the progeny of nobility but may be instead the descendants of poor Jews who sought a new life by passing through the doors of the Catechumens. Of

David I. Kertzer

#47. When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

Emily Carr

#48. It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

Paul Torday

#49. We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#50. People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don't see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

Mother Teresa

#51. We live in a microwave life where people want success without passing through the process of hard work. This is because our daily discussions focus on successes and not our struggles, which end up sending wrong message to other people, believing that success can be achieved without hard work.

Uzoma Nnadi

#52. I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Edvard Munch

#53. We cannot make our way to the horizon without passing through the field of heather." It

Bradley P. Beaulieu

#54. It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

Watchman Nee

#55. It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

#56. For those of us with BPD, entering into a shared experience means passing through the ring of fire that leaves us feeling even more burned - and in this case branded with a label no one would ever choose to wear.

Kiera Van Gelder

#57. Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

Dave Ramsey

#58. Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

Tayari Jones

#59. Landscape, which looks so constant, is on the move. The mountains dream on the horizon, but mountains are just passing through. I watch them, wearing, grinding, rising up out there, their motion still the main beat.

Jill Frayne

#60. Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Adam Clarke

#61. As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made.

Ted Hughes

#62. IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#63. [Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.

John Calvin

#64. I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

Wendell Berry

#65. One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.

Dada Bhagwan

#66. Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Rajneesh

#67. Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

George Will

#68. There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

Keri Hulme

#69. The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#70. The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#71. The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Sigmund Freud

#72. Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique. The

Kakuzo Okakura

#73. As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

Pat Conroy

#74. What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Victor Cherbuliez

#75. Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

Damon Galgut

#76. My yoga teacher says to think of your thoughts like skateboarders passing through our line of vision; just watch them go by, don't try to follow them down the street.

Gabrielle Bell

#77. It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

John Lennon

#78. The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

Richard Siken

#79. The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer ... the quiet in the woods of a summer morning, the voice of a pewee passing through it like a tight silver wire; ...

Wendell Berry

#80. Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.

Henry B. Eyring

#81. The photo used on the news had been taken by a tourist passing through Sopchoppy - that was the actual name of the town near which their church compound stood - who, alerted by a local, had snapped a picture of "those angel-cult freaks" when they came in for supplies.

Laini Taylor

#82. When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Bruce Conner

#83. Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

#84. Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

Winston Churchill

#85. The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard

#86. Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.

James Cameron

#87. All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

Brigham Young

#88. When I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something
something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

Neal Stephenson

#89. Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Julie Christie

#90. College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Mark Twain

#91. When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Sathya Sai Baba

#92. Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.

Jeff Nuttall

#93. All those children I thought were just passing through have taken up residence in my heart. I can close my eyes and picture their faces, which is enough to make me feel warm all over.

Bette Lee Crosby

#94. The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.

Mark Frost

#95. The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#96. Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Boris Pasternak

#97. I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.

Will Oldham

#98. Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.

Neal Stephenson

#99. But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters.

T.D. Jakes

#100. The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg