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.
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.
It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it never creates a negative reference point saying "Damn , that seaweed is still there. There must be something terribly wrong with me". When they arise, the ocean just sees them for what they are and they pass away naturally.
Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away. " Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.
It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
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.
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.
The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.
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.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.
All science is transcendental or else passes away.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.