Quotes About Transition

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight.

I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Something had happened. The bath towels knew it, the bathtub and the toilet knew it. My father turned and walked out the door. He knew it. It was my last beating. From him.

I walk out of the dark and into the dark and sit down and wait.

please have some cheer: agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

I thought of all my rotten jobs and how glad I was to have them. for a while. then it was a matter of quitting or getting fired. both felt good.

then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.

when you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.

it's moments like this - you can feel it happening - that you grow transformed partly into something else strange and unimaginable— so when death comes it can only take part of you rom "8 Count Concerto

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

the most immense thing about beauty is finding it gone.

Son-of-a-bitch, I thought, one minute I've got two women and the next I've got none.

But before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

è sempre un processo di lasciar perdere, in un modo o nell'altro.

When you didn't know how to do anything that's what you became—a shipping clerk, receiving clerk, stock boy.

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel

we have everything and we have nothing. some do it well enough for a while and then give way. fame gets them or disgust or age or lack of proper diet or ink across the eyes or children in college or new cars or broken backs while skiing in Switzerland or new politics or new wives or just natural change and decay—

It was a month or so later that Red's family moved. One day they were gone. Just like that.