Quotes About Transition

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

Una grande epoca storica non muore mai tanto rapidamente quanto i suoi tendono a sperare e forse anche devono sperare per poterla colpire con il dovuto rigore.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've felth that many times. My hope for all of us is that "the miles we go before we sleep" will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring - delight, sadness, joy, wisdom - and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.

To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

idea of beginning afresh had always attracted him more than the notion of carrying on indefinitely.

Il n'arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu'on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu'on n'arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu'on n'arrive plus à replier une chemise comme l'avait fait la vendeuse. Les plis du tissu sont là, bien marqués, on les suit, mais le résultat n'est plus parfait, il est personnel.

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

And you?" "Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this. Hamburg, Vienna, Malta, Tripoli, Cyprus—forget it. It's all over.

One day, maybe not too long from now, the Russian empire will begin to crack. One day soon, the Romanians

And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

The difference between the ages of ten and fourteen is immense.

And so, seemingly overnight, French political and military influence in South Vietnam withered. On May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from the Saigon area and assembled in a coastal enclave. From there, their numbers steadily dwindled, until on April 28, 1956, the last French soldier departed Vietnam—signifying the symbolic end, some said, of France's century in the Far East.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place

Autumn is the hush before winter.

The first step binds one to the second.

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.

From word to deed is a great space.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.