Quotes About Transition

From then on whenever he heard the song he thought of the death of Munson. They always said that when the old city disappeared and something new took its place.

The Theresa desegregated in 1940, after the neighborhood tipped over from Jews and Italians and became the domain of Southern blacks and West Indians. Everyone who came uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean.

By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before

Understanding that something is always lost when it comes to human beings.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

You are a dancer for only a part of your life. The rest of the time you are walking around, thinking about it!

They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?

Wenn wir gehen, nehmen wir unsere Heimat mit.

DAWN UNLOCKED THE MORNING IN INCREMENTS OF GRAY.

On describing balding - wild emigrating hair

I have known successful businessmen who, upon retirement, lost all zest for life. Their work had given their lives meaning. Often it was the only thing that had given their lives meaning and, without it, they spent day after day sitting at home, depressed, "with nothing to do.

We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them. The first spark of joy came when we saw a rooster with a tail of multicolored feathers. But it remained only a spark; we did not yet belong to this world.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

With the end of uncertainty there came the uncertainty of the end

Times of transition are difficult times, times of crisis. But in these times of crisis, with their woes, a new time is already being born.

When we are no longer able to change a situation

You don't retire from a job (which may have become stale) but to an activity that is meaningful to you.

We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them. The first spark of joy came when we saw a rooster with a tail of multicolored feathers. But it remained only a spark; we did not yet belonged to this world.