Quotes About Transition

Life Begins at Forty.

Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!

Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer's pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter's

More changes occur in the first month after birth than at any other time in a woman's life. It's no wonder that 50–75 percent of all mothers feel some degree of baby blues (the incidence would be 100 percent if males gave birth and fed babies).

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.

What's past is prologue.

O! wither'd is the garland of the war,The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girlsAre level now with men; the odds is gone,And there is nothing left remarkableBeneath the visiting moon.

O Hamlet! what a falling-off was there.

The true beginning of our end.

[W]ell-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads...

And when he's old, cashier'd.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Makes a swanlike end,Fading in music.

So part we sadly in this troublous world,To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.

I have liv'd long enough: my way of lifeIs fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf;And that which should accompany old age,As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead,Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

We have seen better days.

This weak piping time of peace.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.