Quotes About Transition

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Estaba muerta, ése era ahora su estado natural y pacífico. Como si nunca hubiera sido otra cosa: de repente pétrea, muerta y neutra, una cosa.

Death is a very important part of life.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room.

You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.

All'inizio fui colto dall'euforia [...] Poi l'euforia svanì e lasciò il posto allo sgomento. La pillola, il suo rituale e quello che c'era intorno erano stati, in quegli anni, alibi perfetti per evitare ogni responsabilità e sentirmi anche in credito con la vita. Adesso, di punto in bianco, gli alibi non c'erano più [...] D'un tratto mi ritrovavo in mare aperto, e non ero pronto

It got late, very early.

Watson in the nineties has been like English cricket in the nineties: an accident waiting to happen.

In short, the post–Cold War order is unraveling, and while not perfect, it will be missed.

I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our turn we join them in exploring the universe.

Joshua was trembling, for he knew what lay before him, and he wanted to cry out and run after the man who had been his master for so many years. But he knew he must not. At last the figure disappeared in the distance so that even the keenest-eyed Israelite could not see him. And then Joshua turned to Caleb, tears streaming down his face. "Never again," he whispered, "will we see a man like Moses!

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

It is terrible the way you think time is going to change you. The way you think of some future time when things will be all right. And all that happens is that you drop back into the previous stream of time and it closes over your head.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.

What do you call that moment when we let go of the conviction, albeit illusory, that life will only grow larger? That the horizon will always expand?

When you enter your next relationship, you become the person you split up with.

Every year has an expiration date, as does every lifetime. Even the finest wine can't age forever.

Just because you've become tired of emotion, or outgrown it, doesn't mean it'll be simple to free yourself from it. It must be dismantled, not ignored.

I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.

We are always permeable, shifting. We are all only one strange leap away from becoming inconceivable to our former selves.