Quotes About Transition

The end is coming yesterday it was here too.

I'm thinking of the moment something dies and how we instinctively know it. And of how we try not to know what we know because we do not yet understand how we are to negotiate change.

Bueno, llega un momento en que todos hemos de empezar a cambiar si queremos mejorar. Y nuestra propia persona es lo que tenemos más a mano.

You are always moving toward your fate, in life.

One day she say to me, Well, Miss Celie, I believe it time for me to go. When? I ast. Early next month, she say. June. June a good time to go off into the world.

Life don't stop just cause you leave home, Miss Celie. You know that." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

That was the beginning of her abstraction.

It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.

Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.

The King is dead. Long live the King! We must all offer allegiance to our new sovereign lord, King Edward the Fifth.

But it's always easier for those who go to new places than it is for those who are left behind

things had once stood between them. That had gone for ever, she knew, and in its place there was a terrible sense of loss that sometimes threatened to overwhelm

how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?

the only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you're always starting and then leaving

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

What came is gone forever every time

Trees scream and drop bright leaves

salute the new sunset

Clock hands move noonward

who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.