Passing Away Quotes - Page 5

• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Distance, Law

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.148

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

  Joseph Addison

  Together, Cards, Dozen

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

  Thomas a Kempis

  World, Glory

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• All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
  Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

  William C. Bryant

  God, Earth, Lasts

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Love Of God”

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Spring, Flower

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Jesus, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, on that day, that wrathful day,
  When man to judgment wakes front clay,
  Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
  Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Heaven, Clay

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• Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Reading, Humble, Men

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• I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Half, Advise

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• All science is transcendental or else passes away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Transcendental

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.211, Harvard University Press

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• Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, School, Men

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• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Tin, Fundamentals

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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• Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Shining, Sorrow

  Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Coe Howard, DuBose Heyward, Elmer Rice (1988). “Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s”

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• The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heat Of The Sun, Soul, May

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• Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Generations, Actors

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.18

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• There is nothing can equal the tender hours
  When life is first in bloom,
  When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
  Finds everywhere perfume;
  When the present is all and it questions not
  If those flowers shall pass away,
  But pleased with its own delightful lot,
  Dreams never of decay.

  Henry George Bohn

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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• You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Law, Doctrine, Use

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Unity of Evangelical and Apostolical Teaching: Sermons Preached Mostly in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.19

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• This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, Morning, Order

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• The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Yield, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.105, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Funeral, Delight

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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• The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Ephemeral

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.22, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  Ovid

  Time, Hate, Anger

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