And if he has passed through life as an effortless heart-winner, why would that have been such an untenable legacy for an unborn child?
In Rome, amid a hundred humiliations, she grieves to think that her past, rich in friendship, work and welcome, has now carried her to an Italian limbo where she "passed through life like a knife through smoke".
Related: Down with women-only literary prizes In How to Be Both, a 15th-century girl makes art against the odds by passing through life as a boy and a man; and a 15-year-old girl begins to negotiate who she is, and who she can be, in the modern world.
In How to Be Both, a 15th-century girl makes art against the odds by passing through life as a boy and a man; and a 15-year-old girl begins to negotiate who she is, and who she can be, in the modern world.
I've gone through a number of musical phases, and there were years that passed in which I didn't listen to the Beatles, aside from the unavoidable snippets one hears passing through life.
If it's an indication that it's easier in America to pass through life as someone's wife or daughter rather than be seen as an individual in your own right.
"No human being could pass through life and feel so little".
Gaspard is a walking cipher, a man without qualities, passing through life with a strange neutrality, holding himself in abeyance in anticipation of a vaguely glorious future.
And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!" — Jane Eyre I ask you to pass through life at my side to be my second self, and my best earthly companion".
"The real question," wrote Harriet Taylor Mill, in words often called on by the suffragettes, "is whether it is right or expedient that one half of the human race should pass through life in a state of forced subordination to the other half … when the only reason that can be given is, that men like it".
Linear time is unnerving because it has "passing" built into it, like we're passing through life.
