Passing Away Quotes - Page 6

• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Funeral, Delight

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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• This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Eye, Civilization, Likes

  "The March into Socialism". Book by Joseph A. Schumpeter, p.419, 1950.

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• Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

  Thomas a Kempis

  World, Glory

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• Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.

  Theodore Tilton

  Pleasure

  THEODORE TILTON (1867). “THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS”, p.46

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• If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

  Matthew Simpson

  May, Pleasure, Enjoy

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

  Tia Mowry

  Done, World, Money Comes And Goes

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• What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment - what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically?

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Wings, Healthy, Rope

  "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat (1937), translated by Iraj Bashiri, 1974.

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• Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

  S. N. Goenka

  Practice, Truth Is, Enough

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• Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy,
  since they cannot change their places,
  are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them;
  and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
  and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away,
  --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.
  One sees them passing through various stages,
  and at last step by step approaching death,
  which makes them look still more like ourselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Rivers, Tree

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• Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

  Asvaghosa

  Thinking, Attention, Substance

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• Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Life, Failure, Fall

  "Abide with Me" l. 1 (1847)

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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• That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

  Walter Scott

  Wrath, Heaven, Earth

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.413, e-artnow

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• What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Morning, Strong

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 178), 1895.

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• Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Spring, Flower

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  Soul, Secret, Tears

  Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press

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• Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.

  David Sedaris

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Reality, Two, Heaven

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• If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know. But as long as I got my health goin' pretty good, I'll show up around here.

  Muddy Waters

  Long, People, Sick

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• At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.

  Daniel Suarez

  Issues, Transition, Population

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.46, Penguin

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• The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Eye, Men, Easy

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 49,

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• . . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Regret, Men

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• But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Fall, Rising Up, Space

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Pain

  "White Night". Book by Jim Butcher, 2007.

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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