Passing Away Quotes - Page 10

• I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  Uzo Aduba

  Father, Home, America

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• Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Giving, Touching

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nature, Intelligent, Revolutionary Leaders

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

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• Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.

  Seraphim Rose

  Struggle, Heart, Choices

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• I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

  Wendell Berry

  Grief, Believe, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Confused, Confusion

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• Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

  Augustus William Hare

  Hurt, Light, Elements

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

  Lucian

  Fleeting, World, Tranquility

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• Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

  Martin Heidegger

  Time Passing, Constant, Passings

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

  Henry Miller

  Shadow, Anomalies, Earth

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

  Sarada Devi

  Son, Bridges, Water

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 370), 2004.

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• no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Blood, People, Persons

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• everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

  Ilka Chase

  Experience, Humans, Persons

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• Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.

  Olive Schreiner

  Art, War, Ambition

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• Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.

  Theodore Tilton

  Pain, Bears, Difficult

  THEODORE TILTON (1867). “THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS”, p.47

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• Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Time, Eternity

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1818). “Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author”, p.200

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• It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

  Esther Meynell

  Memories, Memorable, Wind

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Clouds, Alive

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• Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Grief, Heart, Cheat

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.26

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• To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

  Amy Bloom

  Fall, Knowing, Forever

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• A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.

  James Martineau

  Strong, Light, Secret Places

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.260

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• Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Onward And Upward, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Bring me an axe and spade,
  Bring me a winding-sheet;
  When I my grave have made
  Let winds and tempests beat:
  Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
  True love doth pass away!

  William Blake

  Love, Lying, Wind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Happiness, Time

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