Quotes About Transition

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

The majority of initiatory ordeals more or less clearly imply a ritual death followed by resurrection or a new birth. The central moment of every initiation is represented by the ceremony symbolizing the death of the novice and his return to the fellowship of the living. But he returns to life a new man, assuming another mode of being. Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, ignorance, and the profane condition.

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.

There are eras in which you can only move forward by going in the opposite direction.

All culture is a "fall" into history...

It has often been said that one of the characteristics of the modern world is the disappearance of any meaningful rites of initiation.

About the past and the future? About innovation and tradition? About transition and the temporality of time?

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

The pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful than the grief itself.

That the pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful than the grief itself. It means goodbye.

Els coneixements tenen fluïdesa, canvien, els fets canvien, es converteixen en no fets.

Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues... [I] don't know where to go.

El sol va desapareixent, s'escapoleix perquè altres bandes del món puguin aprofitar-ne la claror i l'escalfor.

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

On nema snage da se otme svemu oko sebe i da otpo?ne nešto novo sa sobom i sa životom oko sebe.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.

Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert. I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.