“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing
Variant: All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.”
"On Dreams"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes …" by William Hazlitt?
William Hazlitt186
English writer 1778–1830Related quotes
Thomas Adam (1701–1784) clergyman, religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 582.
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Orlando, Florida (September 21, 2016)
Context: When we leave people out or write them off, we not only shortchange them and their dreams, we shortchange our country and our own futures. That’s one reason why I care so much about supporting working parents. It’s one reason why I’m such a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform.... It’s also one reason why we’ve got to break down barriers of systemic racism, including under-investment that has held communities of color back for generations. That’s part of building an inclusive economy, too. And it’s why I believe we need to do more to help young people, who are left behind in the wake of the Great Recession, find those strategies and opportunities that will get them moving ahead again. And we’ve got to help older Americans who’ve displaced by automation and outsourcing in our changing economy.
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2000s, Democratic National Convention speech (2008)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Proclamation 3560 — Thanksgiving Day, 1963" (5 November 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9511<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <br class="br">1963 <br class="br">Context: Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers — for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.<br>Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
“We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.”
Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) Indian Bharatnatyam dancer
pdf, A Century of Negotiations: The Changing Sphere of the Woman Dancer in India, 1 December 2013, Performancestudies.ucla.edu, 15-16 http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/downloads/SarkarNegotiation.pdf.,
“We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1993)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
14 December 1756
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
