Quotes About Transition

Only one who has practiced intensively in preparation for the transition that occurs at death and gained sufficient mental control is capable of exerting an influence on its future state of existence or avoiding rebirth altogether by achieving liberation.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.

First things were good, last things not so much so.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.

He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.

Boys took a long time to become men but daughters were women from the kickoff.

After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!