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Quotes About Transition

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
~ Isabel Wilkerson
Life happens at intersections.
~ Jack Dorsey
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
~ Terence McKenna
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
~ Alice Walker
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.
~ Arnaud Desjardins
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
~ Billy Joel
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
~ Brian Aldiss
Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.
~ C. S. Lewis
Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.
~ Carl Jung
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
~ Fritz Kreisler
I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
~ Jack Dee
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
~ James Earl Jones
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what
~ Jennifer Egan
Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.
~ William T. Vollmann
One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
~ Beverly Donofrio
The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.
~ Carole Radziwill
High School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)
~ Jenny Lawson
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
~ Keanu Reeves
If this is death, it is easier than life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
~ Roni Horn