Quotes About Transition

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

... And death unloads thee.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.