Quotes About Transition

Our old ideas are not so much overthrown as upset. The old is not destroyed; it is replaced. We simply learn to see new things in a different light.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

You can run from change, but you can't run away from change.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered 'promising.' I think it is about the time they turn forty.

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels.

As clouds race towards their own release from form, they are replenshied by the mutable process which created them. They drift, not into continuity, but into other, temporary states of being, all of which eventually decompose to melt into the surrounding air. They rise and fall like vaporous civilizations....

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

There is not so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life.

For, with a ship's gear, as well as a sailor's wardrobe, fine weather must be improved to get ready for the bad to come.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places.

It has always seemed to me that there is something big to be felt by a man who has made up his mind to leave the things he knows and go off to strange places. I felt the same for the rose cuttings I took from the garden down to the cemetery. But men are different from flowers for they are able to make up their own minds about things. And that should make the feeling bigger, I think.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Does a man's existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He's still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. "Death is merely continuation at another level.

The death of someone with whom a person has been long and closely associated leaves a literal vacuum in that person's life

There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before.

He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time.

Nine is the age of great turning. Maybe humanity was a nine-year-old, not yet grown up, not a little kid anymore. Seemingly in control, but always on the verge of rage.

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

And there's only the narrowest window of time in which to really see them, before these things that never were turn into things that have always been.

Her real life starts this night - a long, postmortem bonus round. Nothing in the years to come can do worse than she was ready to do to herself. Human estimation can no longer touch her. She's free now to experiment. To discover anything.

the endless hostage swap of travelers east and west.