Passing Away Quotes - Page 12

• An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Enemy, Desire

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• Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Writing, Ice, Sea

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Zoos, Animal

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Wise, Autumn, Winter

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.141, Macmillan

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• The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that part of you that was born into time, that matures in time, or at least grows older in time and then decays and passes away.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Decay

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

  Woody Allen

  Groups, Peers, Rooms

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• With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

  Russell Wilson

  Dad, Nfl, Yards

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• Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

  Richard Rohr

  Rocks, Self, Peaceful

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in
  the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the
  hillside above the grave.

  Petrarch

  Death, Heart, Drawing

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Coffee, Taste, Popularity

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• Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Flower, Flames

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.452

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• Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

  Boris Sidis

  Laughter, Sky, Fire

  Boris Sidis (1913). “The Psychology of Laughter”

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• The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

  Brian Morton

  Memories, Blessed, Imagination

  Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

  Rumi

  Reality, Play, Long

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• True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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• Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Time, Eternity, Born

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Existence, Non Existence, Nothingness

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

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• Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Death, Islamic, World

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• Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sunshine

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• Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Mind, Flesh

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1580, GENERAL PRESS

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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Family, Forgiveness, Wise

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.278

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• Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  World, Eternity, Only Love

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.78, Ignatius Press

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• With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Rose, World, Petals

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• For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Science, Causes

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.551, Princeton University Press

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• Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moon, Four Seasons

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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