Quotes About Transition

You do remember," continues Semple, "that they turned overnight when the Shah fell and the Ayatollah came to power? You do remember that it happens that quickly?

All'inizio non abbiamo parlato a cuore aperto perché non era virile. Adesso non parliamo perché abbiamo paura, ci vergogniamo, e ci sentiamo disperati, ognuno nella propria solitudine. E' difficile sapere quando siamo passati dalla prima fase alla seconda.

I'm not who I was.

We travel from birth to death, from past to future, and each second which ticks by is gone forever.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.

A beginning and an end. That is every day of our lives. That is what we have in common as human beings, Yaakov, every day of our lives. And to every ending, there is a new beginning.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

Death is part of life.

I remember that on the day before you left, I told you that I wanted to change my way of life, and you asked me why I didn't resign from my company right away. This is no place for me to go into details, but I really do want another kind of life. But here, too, I seem incapable of doing anything. That I myself at times become tired of my own weakness is, I'm afraid, no consolation to you.

From triumph to failure is only one step.

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

When people talk of the indelibility of a strong memory, they speak of recalling exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot or the Challenger space shuttle exploded. But what a woman really remembers is her first period; now there's a memory seared into the brain with the blowtorch of high emotion.

Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying.

It is also hard to write about a city we just moved to; it's not yet in our body.

WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don't think, "What does she mean by that?" Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I'd turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.