Quotes About Transition

Ralph died," Dolarhyde said. "I don't think he liked it very much.

We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

which seemed to hover in a limbo between creation and decay...

It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them—but

Io sto tra due mondi, di cui nessuno e' il mio, e per questo la mia vita e' un po' difficile.

Der Sommer hat angefangen und schon neigt er sich dem Ende zu.

mas a gente se habitua ao fato de não se habituar.

Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

transudation

Se desarrolla –o, para evitar sistemáticamente el presente: se desarrolló– en otro tiempo, en el pasado, antaño, en el mundo anterior a la Gran Guerra, con cuyo estallido comenzaron muchas cosas que, en el fondo, todavía no han dejado de comenzar. Esta

getting used to being up here consisted in getting used to not getting used

How good, he thinks, that she breathes in oblivion with every breath she draws! That in childhood each night is a deep wide gulf between one day and the next.

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

Let us, therefore, learn to pass from one imperfect activity to another without worrying too much about what we are missing. It is true that we make many mistakes. But the biggest of them all is to be surprised at them: as if we had some hope of never making any.

You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.

Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.

What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.

When you gentlemen come to stand at the Boundary between the Settl'd and the Unpossess'd, just about to enter the Deep Woods, you will recognize the Sensation....

Things then did not delay in turning curious.