Quotes About Transition

What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance.

Tarde o temprano será preciso renunciar a lo que tenemos por lo que creemos.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

The future ain't what it used to be.

When you come to a fork in the road, just take it

When you see a fork in the road, take it.

When you get to the fork in the road.....take it!

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. —Anatole France

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

El tiempo nos impulsa hacia delante o hacia atrás y va alterando nuestro aspecto.

Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

J'éprouvais le besoin de commencer à vivre. Commencer à vivre ma vraie vie ? Même si ce devait être une simple mascarade et pas du tout ma vraie vie, le temps était venu où il me fallait prendre le départ et s'avancer en traînant lourdement mes pas.

The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped.

The thought that his own life was about to cease cleansed his heart, the way peppermint cleanses the mouth.

HOW ODDLY SITUATED a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression.

still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.

Venne un giorno, agli sgoccioli della primavera, che sembrava lo scampolo che un sarto avesse staccato da una pezza d'estate, oppure una prova in costume della stagione ventura.

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

We were The Hottentot Venus Draped in our mothers' dresses, Wearing rouge & lipstick, Pillows tucked under floral & print cloth, the first day of spring, As we balanced on high heels. Women sat in a circle talking About men; the girls off Somewhere else, in other houses. We felt the last kisses Our mothers would give us On the mouth.

Life is a constant process of change with which views and values must keep up.

People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.

in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.