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Quotes About Transition

a flying squirrel sits chewing on a bird withered field (Yosa Buson`s farewell haiku)
~ Faubion Bowers
Lo! willow leaves have gone, Without getting grey-haired.
~ Faubion Bowers
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
~ Fay Weldon
started removing
~ Fern Michaels
Lucy let herself into her parents' house, or, as she thought of it now, the other hateful house. She thought at that moment that the house was giving off vibes that the people who had lived in it were gone. Gone as in never coming back.
~ Fern Michaels
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I do not evolve, I simply journey.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!
~ Fernando Pessoa
At the end of this day there remains what was left behind of yesterday and what will be left behind of tomorrow: the insatiable, innumerable longing to be always the same and always other.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Afinal, se coisas boas se vão é para que coisas melhores possam vir. Esqueça o passado, desapego é o segredo!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Four times in the false year the false season Changed, in the immutable course Of times's progression. Dryness follows greenness, and greenness dryness, And no one knows which is first, which Is last, and they end.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Death is a bend in the road, / To die is to slip out of view. from "23 May 1932
~ Fernando Pessoa
Todos los movimientos y las intenciones de la vida, desde la vida sencilla de los pulmones hasta la construcción de ciudades y el trazado de fronteras de imperios, los considero como una somnolencia, cosas como sueños o descansos pasadas involuntariamente en el intervalo entre una realidad y otra realidad, entre un día y otro día del Absoluto.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Death is what we are and what we live. We are born dead, we deadly exist, and we are already dead when we enter Death. Whatever lives, lives because it changes; it changes because it passes; and, because it passes, it dies. Whatever lives is constantly transforming into something else – it continually denies itself, it perpetually evades life. Life is thus an interval, a link, a relation, but a relation between what has passed and what will pass, a dead interval between Death and Death.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We are living an entr'acte with orchestral accompaniment.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Nunca voltarei. Nunca voltarei porque nunca se volta. O lugar a que se volta é sempre outro, A
~ Fernando Pessoa
Death is Life's triumph!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Todo cuanto vive, vive porque cambia; cambia porque pasa; y, porque pasa, muere.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Life lobs us into the air like a stone, and we fly along, saying as we go: "You see, I'm moving.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A morte é a curva da estrada, Morrer é só não ser visto
~ Fernando Pessoa
the royal crown and robe are never as grand as when the departing king leaves them on the ground ...
~ Fernando Pessoa
The dead are born, they don't die.
~ Fernando Pessoa