Passing

Famous quotes containing the word passing:

“This melancholy London—I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“On a day—alack the day—
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)