Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Austin O'Malley

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.

Anthony Jeselnik

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Elif Safak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

Ashton Kutcher

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Henry Miller

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

Martin Heidegger

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.

J. M. Coetzee

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.

Theodore Tilton

Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

Charles Spurgeon

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Charles Spurgeon

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Joseph Addison

Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.

C. S. Lewis

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

Elias Canetti

In eternity everything is just beginning.

H. Haweis

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

James Rogers

We look at it this way. She is spending eternity with our heavenly father.

Thomas More

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Robert Jeffress

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

Chris Collins

Nine minutes is not a long time, if you're going to take a nap. But it's an eternity if you're going to hide a shotgun.