Quotes About Transition

He just wanted to beat a path away from his parents' past, which was also their present and which was threatening to become his present as well.

ebb and flow

Exodus 2:11–15).

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness— and hope moving from one location to another like the holy ghost that it is.

Because if marriage is a kind of womb, divorce is the being born again.

Life is a kaleidoscope, like I said. One minute things seem one way; next minute clicks you up a whole new picture.

Keynes's warning on this matter: "[i]t is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of the transition.

Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it

Being always felt stressful-wherever I was there was something to do, someone to please, a duty to be complete, a role inadequately fulfilled: something amiss. Becoming, on the other hand was a relief. I was never so happy as when I was going somewhere on my own, and the longer it took to get there, the better. Walking was pleasurable, cycling enjoyable, bus journeys fun. But the train was very heaven.

The most obvious symptom of the change came in the form of 'planning'.

Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

The annihilation/re-creation is done so quickly that man does not notice any discontinuum between the two units of time in his sense perception and imagines that everything continues to be as it has been.

All of life is change. When we learn to stop fighting it, that's when we can start to be happy.

I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.

I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be.

California is where you get to start over.

Back home there was a slot in which my life was meant to fit. Then it was taken away and it felt as if there was no place for me. I thought it better to go and start somewhere new. So I thought.' 'That's a very American notion, leaving problems behind and movin' on', Belle said. 'If you thought that, maybe you're not so English after all (...)

Mein ganzes Leben war ich diese Straßen langgegangen, aber nie war mir so sehr aufgefallen, dass ich dabei meinem Zuhause den Rücken zukehrte. Doch als ich das Ende der Straße erreichte und außer Sichtweise meiner Familie abbog, fiel es mir leichter, ruhig auszuschreiten und mich umzusehen.'' 19

Everyone's just passin' through Ohio to get to somewhere else

Even if we painstakingly piece together something lost, it doesn't mean things will ever go back to how they were Berserk

From the front row of the balcony, I look out over the Uptown Cinema. The red velvet seats are emptying, the credits scrolling up the screen. Ginger Rogers married a Nazi, but Cary Grant got her out of it. Their ship is sailing to America; sun burns away the fog and the wind blows free. Now they are gone and I am coming back to reality, breathing a harsher air. It is how I always feel when a movie ends.

I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond the sea. That boy is not me, though I am what he became.

The things you lose do shape who you become. There's no getting around that. But the losses don't obliterate what came before.