Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched him pass and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish.

Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself.

What remains of the dead? What remains of every one of us? Tombstones sink in, moss covers them, and after a few centuries the name can no longer be read. Every forgotten grave is designated a new corpse. As the generations passed, remembrance of the dead diminished until it was forgotten. What was called everlasting peace only lasted half a century. The bones were disturbed as the graveyards were mulched in to suburbs. The earth had become too small, for the living and the dead. In half a century a funeral had become a luxury that only few could afford who had died before judgment day. But who cares about a single body when the whole planet is dying. [...] Earlier the remains of humanity had only had the right to be there as long as the living remembered them. A human being remembers their relatives, their friends and colleagues. But his conscience only reached back three generations before it faded away. Just more then fifty years. With the same ease, you let the picture of our grandfather or your friend from school out of our conscience into absolute nothingness. The memories of a human can last longer than the bones, but as soon as the last one who remembered us has passed we dissolve with time. [...] Back then there was almost no more space in the thick family album for old and brown turned pictures, but almost nobody that looked through it could say for sure who was on the photos. The photographs of the passed can be interpreted as some kind of mask, but not as a print of their soul when they were living. And the photographs only decay as slow as the people that live inside them What remains? Our children? They can look like us. In their reflection we mirror ourselves in a mysterious way. United with those we had loved. In their gestures, in their mimics we happily find ourselves or with sorrow. Friends confirm that our sons and daughters are just like us. Maybe that gives us a certain extension of ourselves when we are no more. We ourselves weren’t the first. We have been made from countless copies that have been before us, just another chimera, always half from our fathers and mothers who are again the half of their parents. So is there nothing unique in us but are we just an endless mixture of small mosaic parts that never endingly exist in us? Have we been formed out of millions of small parts to a complete picture that has no own worth and has to fall into its parts again? Does it even matter to be happy if we found ourselves in our children, a certain line that has been traveling through our bodies for millions of years? What remains of me? [...] What kind of immortality was left for mankind?

When I was a child and I would listen to my sister's LPs She was a huge fan and she was so in love with him that she wrote him a letter. I enjoyed seeing my sis so happy about Manilow Mania. I wrote some lyrics based on one of his songs, also thinking of those ships that pass in the night in the city where I was born. Can you guess which one? Anyway, my sister was already unconscious at the hospital when I inserted an earplug so that she could hear some of his songs. It was very low, very mild Manilow, when all of a sudden, in the second cord when he sang "I made it through the rain" in a beat a bit higher her heartbeat which was being monitored played faster. I could see that as a sign that she was listening. I stopped the song and I started Singing one of her songs that she had especially made for my birthday when I turned nine yrs old and I never forgot about that. I could see a little smile coming from the left side of her lips. It was the affirmation I needed. That she was and will always be there for me as I so admired her soul to the bones!

Without guidance and support for patients and families approaching death, there may be unnecessary conflict, confusion, and trauma that linger long after the passing of a loved one.

You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which is hypocritical as hell after your ten years in Tirimo.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

And occasionally some of the - some of the nations that you will have to - that will be partners in this would probably not be in terms of passing a pure human rights check, be - have everything going for them that you would like to have.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

A power is passing from the earth.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.

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

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

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

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

... 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

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.