Quotes About Transition

When he was a little boy his mother kept him in dresses and long curls; then she dressed him in Scottish regalia. Eventually, at the age of seven, he wore pants—short pants that were part of miniature sailor suits.

When he was a little boy his mother kept him in dresses and long curls; then she dressed him in Scottish regalia. Eventually, at the age of seven, he wore pants—short pants that were part of miniature sailor suits. Evidently, before age nine he had never taken a bath by himself.

To be sure, late that afternoon, Union soldiers drifted into the Confederate camp, and soon knots of blue- and gray-clad men dotted the hills around Appomattox Court House; bullets were indeed replaced by backslaps, the rebel yell with a hearty Southern drawl, war fervor with the first hints of war nostalgia, unbridled hatred with nascent relief, and, by the next day, West Point mini-reunions were even breaking out at the McLean farmhouse. But

A king had to die so a republic could live.

Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.

A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past -- and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Le monde va finir, c'est-à-dire, en réalité, «L'enfance va finir». Et, parce qu'elle va finir, elle demeurera à tout jamais inachevée.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Living is a horizontal fall.

Le seul avenir de l'avenir est de devenir un passé. Quand l'avenir se jette sur nous, il a tellement hâte de se changer en passé qu'il ne prend que pour un instant, pour un soupir, pour un clin d'œil, pour un éclair la forme fragile du présent. On pourrait presque soutenir que le temps n'a qu'une idée: sauter l'étape du présent.

Mi se p?rea pe atunci c? timpul nu se mai sfâr?ea ?i c? trebuia gr?bit neîncetat spre a l?sa loc viitorului. (...) A? fi vrut acum s?-l las s? se odihneasc? pu?in, s?-l v?d încetidindu-?i pasul (...).

Istoria se desf??oar? de obicei cu o încetineal? viclean? în care se împletesc inextricabil efectele ?i cauzele, originile ?i declinul. Aici, în acea zi, ceea ce tr?iam era pur si simplu un sfâr?it de istorie.

Timpul, pur ?i simplu, trecuse pe deasupra, cu cortegiul lui de nout??i ?i de prefaceri, ?i aruncase asupra eviden?ei un fel de v?l de obscuritate.

Toate regimurile li se par bune, în afara celor care au c?zut. ?i le plac revolu?iile când ei sunt cei care le fac.

Ai fi zis c? se îngr??au din spiritul vremii care trece.

La vita è soltanto il vestibolo e la prefazione della morte. Nascere non è altro che cominciare a morire. Le cose serie cominciano con la morte. Vivivamo poco tempo e saremo morti per sempre.

Uneori progresul este cel are m?soara decaden?a.

Timpul aducea cu el toate lucrurile care ne distrugeau ?i de care ne temeam: uzura, del?sarea, schimbarea, declinul ?i uitarea.

La guerre étant finie, on s'arme de nouveau