Passed Quotes

“Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The dead never truly die. They simply change form.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“The best to do with a death was to move on from it.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“As the new year began, [Patricia Highsmith] felt completely paralysed, incapable of reading or picking up the phone. 'I can feel my grip loosening on my self,' she wrote. 'It is like strength failing in the hand that holds me above an abyss.' She wished there was a more awful-sounding word for what she was feeling than simply 'depression'. She wanted to die, she said, but then realised that the best course of action would be to endure the wretchedness until it passed. Her wish was, 'Not to die, but not to exist, simply, until this is over'.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“The USA is likely to slip down the ranking of global superpowers after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.”
― Steven Magee

“Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“When a couple starts with the "how much" conversation they should not continue the same day. You live saying I felt sorry for leaving? Do you live by saying that what you feel has already passed? So you go and ask why? Rooted belief is a continuous bad habit. I dont understand. I dont understand. Did every bad thing show up?”
― Alan Maiccon

“Let go of yesterday,
For it has passed,
Start a new path,
And remain steadfast.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Even though hurricane Dora passed 500 miles south of the Hawaiian islands, the air was filled with an obscuring haze that was limiting visibility.”
― Steven Magee