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.

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.

Tia Mowry

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

Theodore Tilton

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

Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Jeff Foxworthy

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

George Harrison

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

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.

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Bill Wyman

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

William Shakespeare

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

Alan Paton

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Chief Seattle

There is no such place as away.

Chief Seattle

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

Ed Bradley

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

David Ricardo

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

David Icke

The Earth needs rebels!

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.