Passing Moments quotes
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed."
"Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair."
"Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
"With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating."
"The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
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"With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself."
"Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]"
