Quotes About Transition

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.

It was a Mexican cigarette and not so tightly packed as the brand she had smoked in the United States but in the past week or so she had gotten used to it and now liked it as well as American cigarettes.

September I arrived at Antioch College

Death is not always an occasion for sorrow.

When I decided in my mid-fifties to return to a hobby I'd abandoned twenty years earlier, I didn't know what sort of a collector I'd be. As a boy I'd started out collecting everything, then narrowed my focus to British Empire—specifically, to the Scott Specialty Album for Great Britain, British Europe, and British Oceania. In my mid-twenties I'd begun collecting Benelux as well, and in my mid-thirties, when my first marriage ended, I sold everything.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

Have you lost your way? Don't be sad; be happy, because you will see new places, places that you have never been to! It is magical to lose the way!

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

The sad vicissitude of things.