Quotes About Transition

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.

In the final days of Empire, When the people were awakening, It was your smile red carnation which told us that all was being reborn.

To be nothing where he had been everything was an unendurable decline.

Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien etrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-meme arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.[71]

It was the beginning of the end.

He resolved to leave the convent.

why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain

The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.

Tutte le cose della vita sono perennemente in fuga davanti a noi: ombre e luci s'intrecciano; dopo uno sfolgorìo, ecco una ecclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si stendon le mani per afferrare quello che passa; ogni evento è una svolta della strada; e all'improvviso, eccoci vecchi.

Qué pasa con las almas de esos seres que acaban de dejar el seno de Dios cuando se encuentran así desde que nacen pequeñas y desnudas entre los hombres?

In the early ages, the social edifice rested on three columns, the priest, the king and the headsman. It is a long time since a voice exclaimed, "The gods have departed!" Lately another voice has cried, "The kings have departed!" It is now full time that a third voice shall be raised to say, "The executioner must go!

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that moment.

Death is the entrance into the great light.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

Il passaggio da bovaro a carmelitano non ha nulla di stridente: si passa dall'uno all'altro senza gran fatica. Il fondo comune d'ignoranza del villaggio e del convento è una base che mette il contadino allo stesso livello del frate; tenete un po' più grande il gabbano, ed avrete un saio.

Za svakoga od nas ima izvesnih paralelnosti izme?u našeg obrazovanja, naših obi?aja i našeg karaktera, koji stalno napreduju i prekidaju se jedino usled velikih promjena u životu.

I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It's especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.

a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart.

allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.