Quotes About Transition

There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other people's too, when they must either bolt or go permanently under.

There is a classic moment in 'The Sun Also Rises' when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, "Gradually and then suddenly." When someone asks how I lost my mind, that's all I can say too.

It is hard to get back what is lost. It is more difficult still to begin anew.

On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor - and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.

Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything? Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.

The old man's dying was painless and feather-light, all the substance of his once sharp and vigorous mind gone on before; but it was slow. The fading candle flame did not flicker, only dimmed in perfect stillness second by second, so mysteriously that they missed the moment when the last spark withdrew, and only knew he was gone when they began to realise that the prints of age were smoothing themselves out gently from his face.

Anchors aweigh, my boys,Anchors aweigh!Farewell to college joys,We sail at break of day.

When things reach the extreme, they alternate to the opposite.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

The world of today is at the crossroads--[t]he whole scheme of aimless capitalism and the last dregs of traditionalist nationalism are being seen more clearly in their death struggle.

Whatever happened, January would mark the point of no return.

The whole complexion of things was suddenly changed. There could be no thought of a landing, not here at least

And yet they had adjusted with surprisingly little trouble to their new life, and most of them were quite sincerely happy. The adaptability of the human creature is such that they actually had to remind themselves on occasion of their desperate circumstances.

The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:The old order changeth, yielding place to new;And God fulfills himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.