Quotes About Transition

The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

As a consequence of Wittgenstein's philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is going, it looks as if they won't be asked much longer here either. We have learned to do without God, and it looks as if we will learn to do without philosophy. It will now, alas, join the ranks of subjects which are completed (and have become completely spurious), such as alchemy, astrology, platonic love, and stylitism.

So much had changed in the intervening years. So much had been lost. Tents had been replaced with concrete and mud-brick, camels with 4x4s, nomadic freedom with taxes and identity cards and paperwork and all manner of bureaucratic restrictions. For all that they remained Bedouin at heart, desert dwellers and desert travellers, and they had only to come out here for a few hours to remind themselves of the fact, to reconnect with their illustrious heritage.

You have to move on. You know it, deep

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

I am sailing in uncharted water and my old life is a distant shore, still visible through the haze of retrospection but receding to a grey line on the horizon.

Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

It is odd how, when you have announced that you are leaving, it is as if you are already gone, even if your physical departure still lies months away. People begin to erase you from their minds, and you walk the halls with a feeling of growing transparency.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

Soon you will be going on a new journey and beginning a new life.

People narrow to their choices said the other woman. That's not the same as changing.

Success always moves on to the next thing," Milton agreed, as Bloch trailed him up the circular stair. "But failure's timeless, isn't it? Failure is forever.

When your children were small you worried that they would die and you would lose them, and then they grew up and you ended up losing the children they'd been, anyway.

Christian faith keeps reminding us that death is the doorway to eternal life,

He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and poignant as any place on a map, it was, in truth, another time—another country.

Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.

For seven years Ernest had been not so much in my heart and mind as in my very blood cells. And now I would have to learn to live without him. How? Where could one learn to do that kind of amputation, and walk away alive, and still be the same person?