Quotes About Transition

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.

I'm being led — on some dark way.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.

Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals, or places like this.

no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition.

me doy cuenta de que por lo general la muerte es un proceso, más que un suceso. Generalmente la gente se muere poco a poco, acumulativamente. Se pudren lentamente en residencias u hospitales, o sitios como éste

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

They disembark like pieces of broken crockery being poured out of a packing case.

You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers.

Sundown, and the bellies of the clouds flush pink. Renton reflecting that no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition.

Despite the grief, there was no disguising the sense of relief in the air.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.

Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one world to another.

After Billy was born, they had moved to the top floor of an old

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

Past glories are poor feeding.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.

Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself—while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.

What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.

They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.