Quotes About Transition

Then, suddenly, as if the floor of time had slipped away...

my hopes changed into a heap of shapeless rags, like seaweed pulled out of the water.

Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen Aphorism N. 5

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?

Things change, Briony. You can't stop them, and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try.

We had for so long accepted her obedience to our will that when it ceased to be given naturally, it came as a considerable chock; yet there was no option but to accept the change, strange and bewildering as it was, for obedience cannot be extorted.

How quickly children grow! They are infants -- you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind.

Most of the time you will be the it being let go of.

a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

The Rhineland cities were developing the market economy that would eventually replace agrarian civilization; they were therefore in the very early stages of modernization, a transition that always strains social relations.

As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to "forget" old ways of thought in order to meet the current challenges.

Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.

We have to move forward, sweetheart. And we can't do that if we hold on to what was.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

You'd leave the farm? I asked. He nodded. You'd leave school?

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..

Life is all arrivals and departures.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Karen Joy Fowler

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been