Passing Away Quotes

• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Best Friend, Prayer, Inspirational Life

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Morning, Clouds, Sky

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• Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

  Luis Cernuda

  Beautiful, Moments

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Grief, Heaven

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• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 32), 1990.

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Lying, Ignorance

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

  Rumer Godden

  Writing, Sight, Mind

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• When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

  Martin Yan

  Life, Looks, Matter

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• If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

  Pele

  Sports, One Day, World

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• Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
  Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests,
  Of monsters in the ocean.
  
  You are the Just who knows no change,
  The Balance that can never swerve,
  The Eternal which never passes away.
  
  The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers.
  Your Door is open to all who call upon You.
  
  Each love is now alone with his beloved.
  And I am alone with You.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Kings, Stars

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• When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Life And Love, Past

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• The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

  Saint Augustine

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

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• Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Children, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• All things must pass, all things must pass away.

  George Harrison

  Adages, All Things Must Pass, All Things

  Song: All Things Must Pass, Album: All Things Must Pass, 1970

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• O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Earth, Glory

  "Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

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• Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Names, Records

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Use

  "The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 1900.

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• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Men, Names

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

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• No Life can pompless pass away -
  The lowliest career
  To the same Pageant wends its way
  As that exalted here -

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Careers, Pageant

  EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Flower, Forever

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• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

  Diet Eman

  Christian, Giving, Life Is Like

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• The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Eye, Men, Easy

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 49,

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