Quotes about Passing
He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone. a
- Victor Hugo
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love
- Corrie Ten Boom
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
- Alice Hoffman
Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15
- Billy Graham
Death is not a trip, but a destination.
- Billy Graham
O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having finished their courses, is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening.
- St. Augustine
I have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened friendship, I feel the freedom to point to the little clouds and ask for help in letting them pass by.
- Henri Nouwen
So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
- Thomas a Kempis
When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.
- Marcus Aurelius
The hands reaching in among the leaves and spines were once my mother's. I've passed them on. Decades ahead, you'll study your own temporary hands, and you'll remember. Don't cry, this is what happens.
- Margaret Atwood