Quotes About Transition

You can't go from people to nonpeople.

But change's always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.

The termination of a relationship, he said, is not a misunderstanding. It's a reorganization of life.

When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms.

First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice.

For them, winter had come.

Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Ubik talks to us from the future, from the end state to which everything is moving; thus Ubik is not here—which is to say now—but will be

You're not going to be able to hunt androids any longer," she said calmly. "So don't look sad. Please.

You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. In panic he thought, I'm dependent on them. Thank god they stayed.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society. There have been, in Nazi Germany

This is a snowflake that was once a flame—the flame was once the fragment of a star.

Posiblemente quiero que muera porque ya no lo quiero; ya no le necesito más. De forma deliberada me involucré contigo (...) sin mostrar ninguna preocupación por terceros, ni siquiera por ti, para conseguirte, porque eres un buen material como marido y yo necesito un marido nuevo ahora que he agotado al anterior. Y si te quedas conmigo, te trataré igual que lo traté a él. Volverá a ser lo mismo otra vez.

History is passing us by.

It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself.

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

You might be able to adjust to this, the fall of our world, the old world.

Anyhow, that's not what I want. I feel restless. As if there's something I should be doing. Something undone. Some kind of work or something uncompleted. You're right, I suppose. It comes of having sat at a desk for years." "You must try to adjust. Realize that it's over. The old life is gone. Dead." "I guess so.

A rolling stone gathers no moss

His face fell by degrees

If you stand / there long enough the air will thicken / with dusk and dust and exhaust / and finally with / a starless dark. The day will become something / it's never been before, something for / which I have no name.