Quotes About Transition

Nineteen years are as ages to you when you are nineteen. When you are nineteen, there is no experience to tell you that all things have an end. This aching pain has no end.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

it is easier to change a decision that hasn't been made.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

Pat and I, of course, could barely grasp that the Diana who'd been Patrick's beloved nanny three short months ago was destined to be the next queen of England. What a leap! From the nursery to the palace. Positively daunting.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

I write constantly, trying to avoid the dull pain of gradual loss, trying not to think about the fact that I am leaving soon.

What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at least remembers that transformation is possible.

Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!