Quotes About Transition

Everyone was glaring at them. The pressure just popped those two women out the door like corks. I wanted to run out after them and beg them to take me with them. And all the while I was thinking, Oh shit, that's gonna be me." Angie shook her head. "It's tough when you see it coming, ain't it?" "Yeah," I said, "it's like driving on a single-lane highway and seeing an eighteen-wheeler heading right for you.

Until we weren't.

Loss Statement from a major local

It's only a matter of time, Indianyou can't sleep with the river forever.

He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time.

Enormous gain includes enormous loss.

Everything leads somewhere and therefore can lead you out of anywhere.

You can't put a dent in impermanence.

I had so much love in me that I never considered what moving for love would mean, what I might leave behind that could never be found again.

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

It was all nonsense to see things in terms of peaks and crises: the personal events, like the public ones, were long-term affairs, after all. They built up.... It is after--at least months, but it is usually years--that a person will say, My God, my whole life has changed, talking about a passion of love or hate, a marriage, a testing job of work. My life has changed because I have changed.

like all over-thrown Communist leaders he became a democrat as soon as he was ousted from power.

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought the other only changed, himself the same.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared.

It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

But you couldn't mourn forever. Or you could, but as it turned out there were better things to do.