Quotes About Transition

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Man has never been the same since God died.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tanta juventud gozándose en sí misma, abrazados sobre la cama y yo con mi uniforme de niña de las monjas, moviéndome sobre tu cuerpo enfundado en un pantalón blanco, llenándonos de besos cuando todo estaba comenzando.

Everyone always says one door closes to let another open. A true genius already has their foot in the next door before the other one shuts.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives.

Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.

Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between.