Quotes About Transition

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

She lasted three months, then passed on a September day when everything seemed split open with sunlight.

He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then the ease away from it.

When he returned from the war he said to Nurit that he wasn't sure that all of him had come home.

Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

At best she's a scrawny, hollow-eyed croneling." "Croneling?" John tilted his head in perplexity. "Croneling. Noun. One who has yet to achieve cronehood. The adolescent phase of the British crone," Avery lectured.

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.

He watched the screen go gray.

Para dónde se va la oscuridad cuando sale el sol? Para ninguna parte, se convierte en luz.

This quote is from a Constance O'day Flannery book never fear dying it is simply falling asleep in one world and waking up in another

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you just wind up tryin to minimize the pain. Anyway this country aint the same. Nor anything in it. The war changed everthing. I dont think people even know it yet.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.