Quotes About Transition

At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to

especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change," Clara had said.

Qué sucederá con este gran espacio vacío que ahora soy? ¿con qué me llenaré cuando ya no quede ni una brizna de ambición, ningún proyecto, nada de mí?

Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life.

Ca sa devina camine, casele au nevoie de nasteri si de morti.

In her mother's last days, Lucia understood that death was not an end, was not the absence of life, but a powerful oceanic wave of clear, luminous water that was carrying her off to another dimension.

For twenty years we had center-left governments, until 1958, when the right triumphed with Jorge Alessandri, son of The Lion and completely different from his father. The Lion was a populist with advanced ideas for his time; his son was a conservative, and projected an old-maidish image.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I

that were to drive us to the port to

muerte es un umbral hacia otra forma de existencia. El alma trasciende.

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember.

Voy dejando ir, voy soltando…

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio —había dicho Clara.

He was thirty-eight years old, and he was ready to change his life.

Después de la elección, a todo el mundo le cambio la vida y los que pensaron que podían seguir como siempre, muy pronto se dieron cuenta de que eso era una ilusión

This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize

You say you're a coward, but it takes courage to say good-bye to everything and cross a threshold without any idea where it leads.

Has notado que en la pubertad se nos acaba la energía de amazonas que traemos desde la cuna y nos convertimos en seres castrados y llenos de dudas?

country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.

I was fifteen when I returned to Santiago, disoriented from having lived several years outside the country and from having lost my ties with my old friends and my cousins.

Se le ocurrió que al salir de la oficina de su hermano tendría que valerse solo y aterrizaría de narices en su propio nivel de incompetencia.

and on the date stipulated by law the left calmly came to power. And on that date the right began to stockpile hatred.