Quotes About Transition

I felt sorry that he had suffered so long in the hospital, sorry that even in his last minutes our mindless technology had so rudely interrupted his transition

Departure or imminent death will force you to define your true tastes.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again.

In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal. It is the indecisiveness that killed his son.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

A horse gives way to another horse and then suddenly there are two horses, just like that. That's how I loved you.

Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.

The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in a few weeks nearly everyone I cared about would be dead.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

When people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same

A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools, and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.

You don't magically become a new person as soon as you slip a ring on your finger.

We live among the dead until we join them,

He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.

He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

Someone needs to tell them that they're better off without their coffee tables and photo albums. Some person will have to break it to them that their apartments weren't so great, that losing track of half their relatives is probably for the best. Some shit, though, you got to figure for yourself.

Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Nothing last forever, but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way.

The worst thing about Communism is what comes after.

Today Gustaw has died, today Konrad was born