Passing Quotes

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

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.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

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.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.

And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

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

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.