Passing By quotes
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
"Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema."
"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
"Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?"
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"My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by."
"It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her."
"Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by."
"the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by"
"As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time."
"I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by."
"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?"
