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“Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.”

Circles Passing Passings Passing It

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.”

“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.”

“It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.”

“The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. Knew it, I thought. Honestly," I said. What?" Come on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous." What is?" Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. "You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. "The sa-woon." The what?”

Knows Said Girl Found Black Struggle Walking Dresses Honestly Ridiculous Passing Passings Right Words Passing By

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.”

Source: Inkdeath

“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

“That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone passing him on the street raised his hat and said, 'Good day,' Litvinoff often paused so long to weigh evidence that by the time he'd settled on an answer the person had gone on his way, leaving him standing alone.”

Thinking Way Persons Long Said Simple Answers Gone Streets Evidence Standing All Things Raised Leaving Philosopher Passing Passings Hats Good Day Standing Alone Leaving Him

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)”

Ifs Heart Doe Reading Asks Interesting Deals Drug Passing Passings You Choose Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:Nick Hornby

“I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.”

Ifs Firsts Self Lost Ability Race Findings Gun Conscience Criticism Starting Critical Passing Passings Winner Gates Defective Finding Myself Criticism Of Others

Book:Teacher Man: A Memoir

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir

“Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep”

Sometimes Passing Passings Pretending Passing Out

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.”

Whole Stories Lying Records Photography Evidence Passing Passings Time Passing

Book:Collected Novels Volume Four

Source: Collected Novels Volume Four

“With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.”

Ifs Trying Wells Kind Made Enough Shows Eye Social Results Blood Tears Evolution Conscience Mirrors Deny Passing Passings Colour Salt Reserves

Author:Jose Saramago

“Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on.”

Ifs World Looks Spirit House Left Sides Pleasure Wind Goes On Picks Fingers Shoes Flesh Passing Passings Sat Apples Brown Worn Mars Tangible Deck Passing Through Orchard Housekeeping

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.”

“As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.”

People Two Eye Universe Stars Space Gone Students Wall Passing Noise Passings

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.”

Source: Sombrero Fallout

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

Knows Life Death Dies Nature Common Eternity Passing Passings Passing Through Father Died Mortality In Hamlet Hamlet Theme Morality In Hamlet Hamlet Death

Author:William Shakespeare

“... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.”

Kind Saws Alive Passing Passings Hammers Thumbs Passing Through

Author:Neal Stephenson

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

Men Liberty Please Difficulty Passing Passings Encounters Frontiers Candide

Book:VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…

Source: VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…

“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.”

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

Men Sky Color Passing Passings Surrealism Dead Man

Author:Andre Breton

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

Thinking Love Hands Wanted Pain Train Nostalgia Passing Passings

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”

“Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.”

People Ifs Way Wells Persons Might Running Today House Force Steps Streets Strange Crosses Passing Passings Dumb Halls Passing By

Author:Flann O'Brien

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”

Love Giving Mind Stills Dream Body Cutting Capacity Passing Passings Fancy Sensations My Thoughts Infatuation Infatuated

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That second passed. It's gone. Not gonna come again. And while I'm talking to you, every second I'm talking, a second is passing. Gone. Count them up. Count them down. They're gone. Each one bringing you closer to your dying time.”

Said Talking Watches Gone Minutes Dying Right Now Fingers Passing Passings Every Second

Author:Billie Letts

“In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.”

Dies Secret Terrible Disease Seasons Attraction Passing Passings Inclination Pestilence

Book:A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition

Source: A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition

“Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold.”

“When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.”

Feels Trying Eye Girl Brain Class Smart Sorry Passing Passings Swimming Florida Get Over Glimpse Craving Foreheads Whales Bikinis Transplants

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.”

Needs Stills Meditation Source Truth Is Quiet Tests Rewards Ancient Passing Passings Primaries Merit Prize Behaviour Unborn

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.”

Has Beens Said Feelings Asks Powerful Magic Effects Fields Passing Passings Ask Me Zone Once Upon A Time Really Powerful

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.”

Giving Passing Passings Thanks

Author:Meg Rosoff

“He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.”

World Needs Two Done Hands Loneliness Divine Breaths Lips Passing Passings Dust Isolation Nevertheless Reminders Krishna Explicit Two Worlds Nightingales

Author:E. M. Forster

“Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.”

People Desire Secret Tears Response Crowds Passing Passings Meat Bleeding

Book:Brightness Falls from the Air

Source: Brightness Falls from the Air

“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”

Lasts Night Water Cities Sky Streets Thousand Ten Train Passionate Track Passing Passings Wire All Night City Streets

Author:Nelson Algren

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

Humans Stories Adventure Bears Passing Passings Witness Paradox Riddle

Book:With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

Source: With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

“If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.”

Ifs World Giving Trying Wells Soul Might Wealth Pleasure Morning Sky This World Clouds Stores Passing Passings Desert Your Soul Honour Hunts Mist Passing Away Mirages

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Minutes Capable Optimism Passing Like Me Passings Fearless Seconds Crucial Changing Everything

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.”

Knows Way Giving Shapes Passing Passings Thread Fabric Passing Through

Book:Letters on Life: New Prose Translations

Source: Letters on Life: New Prose Translations

“The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.”

Made Passing Passings Flaws Afterlife Impeccable

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.”

Growing Youth Easier Fame Hollywood Suicide Passing Passings Acceptable Growing Old Sanctuary Old Hollywood Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Julie Burchill

“The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.”

Years Made Said Sound Fields Years Ago Intelligent Following Lists Statements Passing Passings Experts Idiotic

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

“Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”

Doe Good Things Passing Passings Worth Living

Author:Joseph Delaney

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

War Madness Passing Passings Pestilence

Author:Mario Puzo

“Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?”

Would Be Fun Passing Passings Hitting Dandelions Passing Out

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia”

Ifs Might Felt Secret Silent Passing Passings Adam Amelia Breaking Apart

Author:Jodi Picoult

“He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.”

Reason Behinds Wife Keys Passing Passings Wheels Repressed Suitcases

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”

Littles Said Faces Sleep Watches Special Fronts Stones Decided Oil Shoulders Passing Passings Block Up And Down Blanket Tissues Lumps Watch Me Mae Sandpaper

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan