Quotes About Transition

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course,From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Nothing stays the same

I guess sometimes there are moments when people's lives change and they don't even know it. They can look back later, when everything's different, and say yes, that was the start of it?that's when it all began, and I didn't even notice.

I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past.

In Bede's account, the "English people" derived their special significance from their conversion. Their Germanic ancestors, who worshipped several deities, such as Woden, were the longest-lasting pagan peoples in the former Roman Empire. Yet during the 200 years following Augustine's arrival they went from being pagan to being Christian. This is because conversion began at the top, with kings, queens and warriors.

When peace returned, the Janus was closed; this happened only ten times in more than a thousand years.

Nevertheless, family gods in general held their ground, as did rural gods, right up to the period when government became Christian. In the early fifth century, in his commentaries on Isaiah (57), St Jerome bears witness to what he saw in Rome several years before. Like Tertullian in his De idololatria, he deplores the fact that nowhere escaped paganism. No sooner had one crossed the threshold of a house than one saw the idols of the domestic Lares, 'as they say!

To Ovid (F, 1, 149 ff.), surprised that time does not recommence in spring, Janus replies that 'the winter solstice is the first day of the new sun and the last of the old' (ibid., 163).

Paradoxically, the more people give up their crutches, the soothing mechanisms of their lives, their self-nourishing habits and deadening routines, the more they are able to embrace life.

Any great "experience"—irrespective of how much bliss it may bestow—remains for some time, and then leaves.

Appearance implies disappearance also: whatever appears must also disappear.

Y aunque no había transcurrido, yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy vaciloso. Pensé: Ahora que todo ha cambiado, ¿quién soy yo dentro del amplio uniforme?

Yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy caviloso.

Lento separóse de la gradinata el Hombre que vio a la Partera.

This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go back to writing my poems, such as they are, find a job to keep body and soul together, and make no attempt to be published.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as a horror movie.

When it left, death didn't even close our eyes.

For a while she thought about becoming a vegetarian. Instead, she took up smoking.

Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy.

Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as a dirge in the void.

Y después nos pusimos a hablar de política, que era un tema que a Cesárea le gustaba, aunque cada vez menos. Cómo si la política y ella hubieran enloquecido juntas.