Quotes About Transition

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Tatínek byl už tehdy rybáÃ…â"¢ským funkcionáÃ…â"¢em jako vÄ›tÅ¡ina bývalých pytlák?.

All things change; nothing perishes.

My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.

I am compelled to speak of metamorphoses

what we call birth is when something first changes out of its former condition, and what we call death is when its identity ceases; things may perhaps be translated hither and thither; nevertheless, they stay constant in their sum total

I intend to speak of metamorphoses.

Alles verändert sich nur, nichts stirbt.

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

Kärleken är någonting som dör. Och när den dör går den över i förruttnelse och kan bli jordmån för en ny kärlek. Den döda kärleken lever då sitt hemliga liv i den levande och det finns i själva verket i kärleken ingen död.