Passing By Quotes

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Paul Cezanne

Moments, That Moment, Passings

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

Funny, Life, Wisdom

Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

Life, Time, Passing On

Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

Strong, Time, Rivers

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kings, Emperor, Passings

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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

Love, Inspirational, Joy

The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

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the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

Tom Waits

Home, Earth, Passings

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

Robert Menzies

Love, Passings, Dies

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Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.

Tyler Kent

Eye, Light, Sky

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She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

Ilona Andrews

Eye, Years, Time Passing

Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.76, Penguin

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I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

Winifred Mary Letts

Heart, Men, Sky

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...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Girl, Eye

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, www.elle.com. 1985.

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For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

Nick Clooney

Boys, Thinking, Everyday

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As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

Lauren Conrad

Design, Littles, Red

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If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Wilma Mankiller

Able, Fool, Arguing

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There’s something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him — that brings me some peace.

Nate Berkus

Beautiful, Touching, Important

"Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, www.oprah.com.

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Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Rich Mullins

Sky, Sun, Made

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...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)

Katherine Paterson

Beautiful, Long, Might

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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not concentration. While listening to me you are listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The wind passing through the trees singing its song - you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or the train - you are open to it too. This is meditation - you are simply open, available, conscious, available, all doors are open.

Rajneesh

Song, Mean, Doors

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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

Rumi

Spiritual, Stars, Self

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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Barack Obama

Central Park, People, Missing

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I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.

Darynda Jones

Saws, Passings, Involved

Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.402, St. Martin's Press

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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Years, Golden, Passings

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Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.

Alice Steinbach

Love, Mother, Growing Up

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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Clouds, Air, Wind

Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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