Quotes About Transition

Maybe we'll have more fun this summer but this particular fun is over. I want it to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally-- that's why I gave this party.

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

to have and to hold, and, in time - let go

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

Maybe we'll have more fun this summer but this particular fun is over. I want it to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

A mile from the sea, where pines give way to dusty poplars, is an isolated railroad stop, whence one June morning in 1925 a victoria brought a woman and her daughter down to Gausse's Hotel. The mother's face was of a fading prettiness that

Astfel alunecam spre moarte,prin amurgul din care caldura zilei pierea treptat.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.

Because of the chasm which his grandfather's visit had opened before him, and the consequent revulsion from his late mode of life, it was inevitable that he should look around in this suddenly hostile city for the friends and environments that had once seemed the warmest and most secure. His fist step was a desperate attempt to get back his old apartment.

Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Es invariablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos las cosas en las que uno ha gastado su propio poder de adaptación.

He would be a different person henceforward, and in his raw state he had bizarre feelings of what his new self would be.

He read the message again. He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that the earliest and strongest of protections is gone?

E assim avançámos rumo à morte, pela frescura do crepúsculo

Je les ai regardé une dernière fois, et ils m'ont rendu mon regard, mais de très loin, sur la rive d'une autre vie. J'ai donc quitté la pièce et descendu les marches, sous la pluie, les laissant là, ensemble.

hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort

Sommer ist nur das uneingelöste Versprechen des Frühling.