“It passes, but it does not pass away.”

“This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.”

“The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

“Remember, Even This Will Pass Away.”

“You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs — they pass into laws — they pass into doctrines — they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.”

“All good things pass away.”

“Time passes. Horror does not.”

“Time, as it always does, passed.”

“Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.”

“How fast passes away the glory of this world.”
O quam cito transit gloria mundi.