Quotes About Transition

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

In today already walks tomorrow.

Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.

Firewood becomes ash and doesn't go back to being firewood again. But we shouldn't think of firewood as its past and ash as its future. Both firewood and ash have their own position in time and space. The past and future are cut off. Firewood and ash each have their own past and their own future. Just as ash doesn't go back to being firewood, human beings, when they die, don't come back to life again.

I only know that sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course.

You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today. Today they were driving along an endless two-lane highway through the forested hills of Connecticut. "Why

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin," he said with a wink. "Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing. I'm glad I feel this way, to remind me that I haven't always felt the same. Been the same.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

That's it. It's all going to end. The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.

My Megan is a sunrise, always changing, but beautiful the entire time.

History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.