Quotes About Transition

To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.

the sound of old winter ice breaking at spring's touch

When you're at an inn and someone in the room above kicks off a boot before going to bed, you hear the first one hit the floor and you wait until you hear the second before your mind can return fully to what it was doing before.

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

He ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities.

But the real difficulties, the real arts of survival, seem to lie in more subtle realms. There, what's called for is a kind of resilience of the psyche, a readiness to deal with what comes next. These captives lay out in a stark and dramatic way what goes on in every life: the transitions whereby you cease to be who you were.

graduated as I turned twenty, and then realized that the world and I were not ready for each other.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that's where they may be seen by others, that's not where they're born.

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

The thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word lost comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.

Los adolescentes se imaginan muriendo jóvenes porque les es más fácil imaginarse la muerte que imaginarse a la persona en la quizá los conviertan todas las decisiones y responsabilidades de la vida adulta.

Los adolescentes se imaginan muriendo jóvenes porque les es más fácil imaginarse la muerte que imaginarse a la persona en la que quizá los conviertan todas las decisiones y responsabilidades de la vida adulta.

And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay and then of this crisis when emergence from what came before must be total and abrupt.