Quotes About Transition

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.

Perché la minestra si fredda.

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.

Many of the men we wanted were used to living in cities or near large metropolitan areas and were a bit dubious about the prospects of life in a remote, sparsely populated area. We had somewhat similar trouble with the engineering people, although they were not so concerned at being isolated.

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.

I can't go back to yesterday--because I was a different person then.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

No puedo volver al pasado porque entonces era una persona diferente.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

Come up again, dear! I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else--but

Yo, señor, en realidad no sé quién soy en este momento, aunque esta mañana lo sabía muy bien cuando me levanté, ¡pero he cambiado tantas veces desde entonces!

Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar. ... - I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

When I woke up this morning, I knew who I was, but I think I've changed many times since then.