Quotes About Transition

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day.

She looked beautiful. And sad. For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of coastlines and stone temples, of bullock carts and colourful trucks, of friends and known shopkeepers, of Nehru Street and Goubert Salai, of this and that, India so familiar to her and loved by her.

Science, according to Kuhn, has not actually followed the classic myth of steady evolution of accumulating theories based on deeper and deeper probing of the evidence. Rather, science has sometimes made huge transitions as one paradigm, which may have stood for centuries, is found to be inadequate and crashes to the ground, to be replaced by another.

What difference does today introduce with respect to yesterday?

All live to die, and rise to fall.

New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

One day you wake up and you're old as shit.

Y'know, a lot of the time it's like you Batguys want me to hold onto the past because you can't get over it. Understand— I have. I have a new life now. One I like — one that fulfills me. It's not the same as the one I had before, but it's good. Maybe even better.

The road is better than the end.

We tend to think the Old Testament ends with the book of Malachi. But Luke 16:16 says, "The law and the prophets were until John," which means that while the final official book of the Old Testament is Malachi, the period of the Old Testament ends with John the Baptist as the last of the prophets under the Law.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Nothing truly ends.It only pauses at some point,then continues in another dimension.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.