Quotes About Transition

Ever'body's askin' that. 'What we comin' to?' Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

Doc awakened very slowly and clumsily like a fat man getting out of a swimming pool. (chap 32)

Seems like our life's over and done. No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses a farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, like eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

But Kino had lost his old world and he must clamber on to a new one. For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he said I will go, and that made a real thing too.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Hay?r, ölmekte olan kiÅŸiyi sevebilir, nefret edebilir, arkas?ndan aÄŸlayabilir, özleyebilirsiniz; ama öldüÄŸü zaman o art?k karma??k ve resmi bir sosyal kutlaman?n ana malzemesi, baÅŸl?ca süs olup ç?kar.

It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time. Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. The district is still too good to tear down and too outmoded to be desirable.

Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners;

It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.

Growth is betrayal.

We shed skins in life, to keep living.

Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane.

He wants to feel good, he always used to feel good at every turning of the year, every vacation or end of vacation, every new sheet on the calendar: but his adult life has proved to have no seasons, only changes of weather, and the older he gets, the less weather interests him. The house next to his old house still has the FOR SALE sign up. He tries his front door

We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of our deaths; and this is our way in. into the nether world

The farther he drives the more he feels some great confused system, Baltimore now instead of Philadelphia, reaching for him.

About being mortal- I suppose it affects different people in different ways, but for me there's never been a thinning out. Being alive, no matter how sick I feel, feels absolute. You're absolutely alive and when you're not you'll be absolutely something else.

as if in the pre-dawn, before light begins to lift edges into being.

Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

Perhaps the final proof that the war was really over came at six o'clock on the first evening, with the pipe - 'children to supper'.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.