Quotes About Transition

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Life during the wedding day can be so simple, but life after the wedding day can be THE HARDEST.

After paying for the wedding about all a father has left to give away is the bride.

A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love."

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.