Slipping Away Quotes

• A veces, si te paras en la barandilla inferior de un puente y te inclinas para observar cómo el río se desliza lentamente bajo tus pies, de repente sabrás todo lo que hay que saber.

  A. A. Milne

  Vida, Significado, Nativo Americano

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• Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Philosophy, Waiting, Sitting

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• Ningún gobierno lucha contra el fascismo para destruirlo. Cuando la burguesía ve que el poder se le escapa de las manos, saca a relucir el fascismo para aferrarse a sus privilegios.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Lucha, Gobierno, Manos

  The Toronto Daily Star, 5 de agosto de 1936.

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• Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, Sadness, People

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• but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Safe, Slipping

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• Una palabra de amabilidad rara vez se dice en vano, mientras que los dichos ingeniosos se pierden tan fácilmente como las perlas que resbalan de un cordel roto.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.

  Mark Doty

  Thinking, Names, Ties

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Tomo su mano, agarrándola con fuerza, preparándome para las cámaras y temiendo el momento en que finalmente tenga que soltarla.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dejar Ir, Juegos, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2011). "La trilogía de Los Juegos del Hambre", p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

  John Wooden

  Memories, Going Away, Hearing

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• He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

  Emma Forrest

  Loss, Missing, Slipping

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Night, Gathering

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.261, Penguin

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• You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Gone, Pushing

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• ...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.

  Katherine Howe

  Names, Long, People

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• People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Believe, People, Slipping

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.213, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

  John Green

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

  John Green (2015). "Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition", p.149, Penguin.

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• . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

  Frederick Buechner

  Peace, Hands, Giving

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• I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet, it's gone.

  Sean Swarner

  People, Age, Gone

  Sean Swarner (2007). “Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

  Marshall Field

  Reality, Guarantees, Speech

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• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

  E. O. Wilson

  Beautiful, Men, Past

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• William Saroyan escribió una gran obra sobre este tema, que la pureza de corazón es el único éxito que vale la pena tener. "En el tiempo de tu vida... ¡vive!". Ese tiempo es corto y no vuelve más. Se está escapando mientras escribo esto y mientras lo lees, y el monosílabo del reloj es Pérdida, pérdida, pérdida, a menos que dediques tu corazón a su oposición.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Heart, Loss

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Creo que hacer cine a veces puede hacerte perezoso en tu enfoque. De vez en cuando estás rodando una escena y ni siquiera es tu cobertura, pero te das cuenta de que te estás desviando y ves que tu mente se va a otra parte. Pero eso no te lo puedes permitir en el escenario.

  Jamie Bell

  Pensar, En Otro Lugar, Perezoso

  Entrevista con Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Letters, Slipping

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• Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it.

  Zhuangzi

  Past, Reality, Doe

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• Esto es América. Estamos orgullosos. No tenemos miedo de un puñado de terroristas. Pero este gobierno es todo sobre alertas terroristas y asustarnos en los aeropuertos. Estamos cambiando la Constitución por miedo. Nos pasamos todo el tiempo mirándonos los vestidos. El miedo es el único problema del Partido Republicano. Vota por ellos, o los terroristas ganarán. Reagan no era eso. Odio pensar en nuestros soldados en Irak luchando por un país que se nos escapa.

  Merle Haggard

  País, Odio, Partido

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• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

  Graham Swift

  Humble, Land, Progress

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