Quotes About Transition

Just when you've overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.

What happens when we die? Everything pretty much goes on as before, except us

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry" Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.

55 percent—about 1.4 million veterans among this generation—said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.

Sometimes there is only a sixty-second divide between youth and maturity, childhood and adulthood, strength and weakness, life and death. That life is vulnerable is the key to its longevity.

Giving up embedded theology (even when necessary) is often painful. Could this be because we believe that if we disregard certain theological beliefs, we are somehow showing disrespect to those who were so instrumental in shaping our faith?

Let's not be afraid...there is always a step after the last step.

It's always the same--you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same. O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.

We were happy when he first came. We first thought he came from the Light; but he comes like the dusk of the evening now, not like the dawn of the morning. He comes like a day that has passed, and night enters our future with him… Plains Chieftain, c. 1870

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—will abandon the disastrous policies of the Obama years.

You can replace a man for one year with a ghost, but not the ghost the subsequent year.

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide, some just melted into the background, some retreated to their native villages – while others ended up hawking vegetables beneath the very structures that gave them their bread and butter.

This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and are launched in one fell swoop into the rest of your life. It's suddenly up to you, and not your tutors or your parents.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.