Quotes About Transition

Maybe the next world will be a pleasanter place than this

Change was afoot at court even before the ceremony. A palace revolution began the day after Henry II's death.

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

Within the space of six months, she had been widowed and orphaned and had lost her standing as queen of France.

If this were not enough, a volte-face had taken place in France itself.

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

There is no peace in dying.

There are transitions in life whether we want them or not. You get older. You lose jobs and loves and people. The story of your life may change dramatically, tragically, or so quietly you don't even notice. It's never any fun, but it can't be avoided. Sometimes you just have to walk into the cold dark water of the unfamiliar and suffer for a while.

This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don''t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong.

Homer Wells, listening to Big Dot Taft, felt like her voice – dulled. Wally was away, Candy was away, and the anatomy of a rabbit was, after Clara, no challenge; the migrants, whom he'd so eagerly anticipated, were just plain hard workers; life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition?

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

It sounds the same to me, Kid," Molly said. "The new lift takes you to the same old place. It's the same trip, just a faster ride—it's no more or less depressing than it ever was," she added.

There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person's life.