Quotes About Transition

L'anima passa attraverso mille tormenti, costruisce per anni, a volte per decenni, pietra dopo pietra, il suo tumulo, prima di arrivare ad ammettere una perdita eterna, prima di rassegnarsi all'evidenza.

In those days, leaving the old behind in times of starvation was not an unknown act, although in this band it was happening for the first time.

We have learned much during our long lives. Yet there we were in our old age, thinking that we had done our share in life. So we stopped, just like that. No more working like we used to, even though our bodies are still healthy enough to do a little more than we expect of ourselves.

Mors aurem vellens, 'Vivite,' ait, 'venio.

Yet few companies make proper use of this opportunity. Instead, the first days on the job often feel more like waterboarding than onboarding: no desk, no computer, no phone, the new boss is traveling, and the first assignment is shadowing an unenthusiastic colleague for two weeks.

La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.      Vamos cayendo, cayendo de nuestro cenit a nuestro nadir y dejamos el aire manchado de sangre para que se envenenen los que vengan mañana a respirarlo.

I see black light (his last words)

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.

Viaggiare è nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella più vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare ciò che passa; ogni evento è una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si è vecchi.

partir,c'est mourir un peu...

At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking of links with the past is a painful thing.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.

In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are learnt. There must be no void in the human heart.

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;