Quotes About Transition

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is It's gone.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

George Anderson, We Don't Die.

There are so many lessons that need to be experienced before we can walk through that portal to a world where no tears live.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

The wheels of government go on, though wound up by different hands.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Tonight's forecast: Dark. Continued dark tonight turning to partly light in the morning.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,One passion doth expel another still.

JAQ FETCHES HER ANORAK RAINCOAT AND her backpack from the coat check. Then stops in the fancy portable toilet to change from the gown into jeans and T-shirt.

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

Bits that are embodied as structure (varying in space, invariant across time) we perceive as memory, and bits that are embodied as sequence (varying in time, invariant across space) we perceive as code. Gates are the intersections where bits span both worlds at the moments of transition from one instant to the next.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.