Quotes About Transition

You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.

we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well

Well. it's all been extremely interesting,' Hannah declared, standing to leave. 'But if I'm honest, I'd prefer my life to be a lot more mundane from now on.

All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.

We could not bring back the Golden Age. Indeed we were now paying the price of having enjoyed one.

Death means you are in the third person.

how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood

I shall have to learn how to miss you.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.

She would sit and read, the book under the waver of light. She would glance now and then down the hall of the villa that had been a war hospital, where she had lived with the other nurses before they had all transferred out gradually, the war moving north, the war almost over. This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

It is a strange time, the end of a war." "Yes. A period of adjustment.

our way up a narrowing cut. It was a different atmosphere

Menschen im Alter zwischen zwanzig und dreißig Jahren sind damit beschäftigt, ein anderer zu werden.

A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good.

I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston.

Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an "experience of the numinous" to help them negotiate the second half of their lives.

An alternative food system is rising up on the margins," Joel continued. "One day Frank Perdue and Don Tyson are going to wake up and find that their world has changed. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen, just as it did for those Catholic priests who came to church one Sunday morning only to find that, my goodness, there aren't as many people in the pews today. Where in the world has everybody gone?

Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an "experience of the numinous" to help them negotiate the second half of their lives. By

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to come at it from a different direction.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

I've had a few health issues since I left the Mansion and so fertility has come up as a big issue for me.

But after sincerely doing TV for years, there came a point when I felt that I should try films because I wanted to take on a new challenge in life.