Quotes About Transition

Love mans knowing when to let go.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

Love means knowing when to let go.

And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Sterven doe je niet ineens, maar af en toe een beetje, en alle beetjes die je stierf, 't is vreemd, maar die vergeet je. Het is je dikwijls zelfs ontgaan. Je zegt: ik ben wat moe, maar op een keer dan ben je aan je laatste beetje toe.

Llegó el otoño con su espléndido cortejo de oros, malvas y rojos.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning.

Time passed and my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Nu vallen de laatste resten van mij af als schilfers van een door de zon verbrande huid en eronder komt een ongepaste, onmogelijke volwassene tevoorschijn. Ik lees in mijn poesiealbum terwijl de nacht langs het raam wandelt en zonder dat het doorheb, glijdt mijn kindertijd stilletjes naar de bodem van mijn herinneringen, die bibliotheek van het gemoed, waaruit ik voor de rest van mijn hele bestaan kennis en ervaring zal opdiepen.

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...

It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?" "I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.

I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]

I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything is gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it.

Luultavasti myrskyjä onkin vain siksi, että niiden jälkeen saataisiin auringonnousu.