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Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains. -- Felicia Hemans
However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. -- Luis Cernuda
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art -- Leonardo da Vinci
Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. -- Nikola Tesla
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. -- Alexander Pope
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? -- Matthew Scully
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. -- Rumi
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away. -- Dalai Lama
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
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
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. -- George Washington
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in. -- Augustus William Hare
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away. -- Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away. -- George Harrison
The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating -- Anaxagoras
No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away. -- Al-Ghazali
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -- Abraham Lincoln
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. -- Martin Heidegger
I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home. -- Jenna Morasca
My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death. -- Cristela Alonzo
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. -- Maureen Dowd
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. -- Marcus Aurelius
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world. -- Ben Okri
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. -- John Raleigh Mott
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? -- Khalil Gibran
My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation. -- Kevin Hart
I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere. -- James Vincent McMorrow
I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, 'I'm going to come back here.' The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away. -- Stephanie Szostak
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. -- George H. W. Bush
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year. -- Alana Stewart
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. -- Sharon Salzberg
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it. -- Annie Besant
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. -- Jack White
I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word. -- Kevin Hart
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. -- Robert Burns
Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart. -- Randy Johnson
Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael. -- William Shatner
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. -- Michelle Moran
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away. -- Rajneesh
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
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. -- Joseph Addison
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. -- Guy Finley
Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards. -- Ellis Peters
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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. -- John Calvin
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
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
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life. -- Marianne Williamson
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong. -- J. M. Coetzee
Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all things.Whoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices. -- Teresa of Ávila
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise -- Gautama Buddha
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
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter

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