
“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”
“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”
Source: Dark Horse
“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”
Source: Joyland
Source: Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print
“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
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
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
“There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.”
“These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.”
Source: These Happy Golden Years
Source: The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
“You will not pass!” Roman thundered.
Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 328 -->
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 6
Context: The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
Source: How I Live Now
Source: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”
Source: Shantaram
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
II–II, 188
Original Latin http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth3183.html: Sicut enim maius est illuminare quam lucere solum, ita maius est contemplata aliis tradere quam solum contemplari.
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Variant: Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
“we travel far and fast
and as we pass through we forget
where we have been”
Stand-up performance at RIT (2005)
“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”
Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.”
“Hearthstone Passes Out Even More than Jason Grace (Though I Have No Idea Who That Is)”
Source: The Sword of Summer
Source: A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”
Source: Say What You Will
Speech to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108389
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Teach us…… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"