I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win. ’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2. 3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.
The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.
I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.
It's kinda like D. H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.