Quotes About Transition

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis pastHow fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

pointing towards the doorway.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they need to know.

There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

In a generation everything can change.

the lawyers' saying 'Le mort saisit le vif'? The dead grip the living. The prince dies but his power passes at the moment of his death, there is no lapse, no interregnum

But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.

The dead wander the lanes of the next life like strangers lost in Venice.

You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

The dead do not negotiate.

he leaves the church, Henry puts on his hat. It is a big hat, a new hat. And in that hat there is a feather.

His stepson was fourteen years old when he removed his noisy and overgrown presence to

It was just that I was unsuited to being a child.

Death is your prince

I used to think that fifteen would be nearly grown up," said her sister Naomi, "until you started being it

Amerika is wie Föhn, je länger man da ist, um so schlimmer wird's.

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?

In a way, the goal of all writing projects should be to "get the hell out." You don't simply want to finish; you want to finish as quickly and easily as possible (without undue stress or pressure, of course) so that you can move on to the next project—or, the rest of your life.

Amy Weitz had said that the dead seem to hang around for a while, as if to guide and comfort us, and then slowly disappear into an unapproachable distance. How did we let them go?

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

Suddenly everything went black. A storm raged inside me. I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here. Worse that that, what had I been doing for all these years? Gradually the storm subsided, and for the first time I really understood: my thirty years as a guerrilla fighter for the Japanese army were abruptly finished. This was the end.