Quotes About Transition

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

The child shall become father to the man.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Every monster was a man first.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.