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

  Robert Menzies

  Love, Passings, Dies

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• It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

  Kate Chopin

  Broken, Leaving, Promise

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Dark, Our World

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.156, Zondervan

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• Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

  Yann Martel

  Clouds, Shadow, Passings

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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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• Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

  Steven Pressfield

  Lying, Law, Stranger

  Steven Pressfield (2000). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Random House

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• Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

  Flann O'Brien

  Running, People, House

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• The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. Knew it, I thought. Honestly," I said. What?" Come on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous." What is?" Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. "You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. "The sa-woon." The what?

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Struggle, Black

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

  Sarah Dessen

  Glances, Passings, Seeing

  Sarah Dessen (2007). “Just Listen”, p.372, Penguin UK

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• Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

  John Cage

  School, People, What If

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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• The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.

  Mary Karr

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

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• The clouds are passing by slowly as the moon appears. Like the clouds, there are certain things which will disappear with the passing of time. And when it happens, you'll realize that it wasn't any big deal.

  Jin Sun Mi

  Drama, Moon, Clouds

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• When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Eye, Doors

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• None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

  Henry Fielding

  Kings, Powerful, Silence

  Covent Garden Journal, June 13, 1752.

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• I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

  Jackson Browne

  Time, Morning, Eye

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• The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Believe, Sides, Indifference

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