Quotes about pass
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“For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Light

“All good things pass away.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

“But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . .. . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

Evil

“Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.”

Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Flying

“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion--even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Soul, Fashion

“Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Hope, Dependency

“You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.”

Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter

Source: The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

People

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

Life, Soul, Imagination, Problem

“[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Jerk, Tree, Parting

“He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Dreams, Time, Motivational, Deep

“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”

Matthew Scully (1959) American political writer and speechwriter

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Evil, Time

“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

World, Imagination, Time, Waiting

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”

James Joyce book Chamber Music

Source: Chamber Music

Love, Sadness, Lovers, Sleep

“Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course.
Isabel Dalhousie”

Alexander McCall Smith book The Careful Use of Compliments

Source: The Careful Use of Compliments

Change, Time, Heart

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Love, Men, Beauty, Season

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

Pain, Beauty

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

People, Imagination, Thinking, Waiting

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Forgiveness, Relationship

“Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?”

Howard Koch (1901–1995) American screenwriter

Source: War Of The Worlds : The Invasion From Mars

Time

“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Love

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Books, Age, World, Freedom

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

Life, Pain, Happiness, Strong

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Death, Way, Birth

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV.
Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

Life, Silence, Distant, Night

“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

Sandra Dallas American writer

Children, World

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

People, Time

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Love, Death, Happiness, Sadness

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Passion

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“… i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

Love

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Chance

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God (1994)

People, Chance, Time, Hurt

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, People, Cars, Nature

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"On The Conduct of Life" (1822)

Health, Beauty, Animals, Personality

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Youth, Despair

“There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

Books, Age

“Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father)
Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

Star, Tear, Water, Heart

“Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked.
"Potatoes," Vane told him.
"What did they do to them?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

“Each day I live in a glass room
Unless I break it with the thrusting
Of my senses and pass through
The splintered walls to the great landscape.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)

Sense

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer

Life

“If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." (Jace Wayland)”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace
Source: City of Glass

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Time, Reading, Personality

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Time

“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Thinking, Wealth

“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

Life, Beauty, Way

“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Death

“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Thinking, Time

“A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Love, Strong, Anger

“as she
drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of
me, and I kept saying as we drove along
(to myself, of course)
fucker, it will pass,
everything passes,
it's all a joke
a joke on you”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human […] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Fear

“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Interview on CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/43670783 (1 July 2011)

Law, Time

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy. Most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening?”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)

People, Question

“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”

Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer

Source: The Story of the Lost Child

Life

“I rightly pass for an atheist.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

“The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Truth, Change

“I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Man of My Dreams

Life, Feeling, Time

“Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.”

Mario Puzo book Fools Die

Source: Fools Die

Death, War, Time, Madness

“because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

World, Search, Time, Past

“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love, Time

“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Love, Water

“He looked at the walls,
Awed at the heights
His people had achieved
And for a moment -- just a moment --
All that lay behind him
Passed from view.”

Herbert Mason (1891–1960) British film director and producer

Source: The Epic of Gilgamesh

People

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Life, Training

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Way, History

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Life

“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Dreams

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Life

“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

World

“Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

The Shortcut: 20 Stories To Get You From Here To There (2006) by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179

Water, Time

“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

Teachers

“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.”

Tadeusz Borowski book This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Source: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Truth, Beauty, Silence

“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Time

“All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Way, Feeling

“I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Becauseis one of the magical fantasy words likeandandthat have now passed into language.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Imagination

“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

“No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Arctic Incident

Stupidity, Understanding, Thinking

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Tree, Grass

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

God, World, Heart

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Girl

“Live and learn and pass it on.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Learning

“This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Way, Time

“Time passes. Horror does not.”

Alan Dean Foster book Aliens

Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization

Time

“Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Strong, Heart

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)

“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Life, Past, Joy

“Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Time

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)

Health, Beauty, Dreams, Sleep

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Context: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Horse