Pass Quotes

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.

Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.

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.

Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

If you understand ‘it’ will come, then you’ll understand ‘it’ will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.