Quotes About Transition

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.

There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

After the first death, there is no other.

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an afterlife in the city of ghosts, while from others, and thus was the death of Wickham Place, the spirit slips before the body perishes.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

It's better, I think, to move on. To look forward.