Passing Quotes

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)
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship. View quote
Omar Bradley
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. View quote
Brian May
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. View quote
Robert Frost
By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy But in passing over it, he is superior. View quote
Francis Bacon
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. View quote
William Butler Yeats
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. (William Butler Yeats)
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. View quote
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. View quote
William James
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. View quote
William Hazlitt
On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art. View quote
André Malraux
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. (Samuel Johnson)
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. View quote
Marcus Terentius Varro
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. View quote
Margaret Fuller