Quotes About Transition

The life of man is a winter way.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.