Quotes About Transition

Except that's the thing about dying, or experiencing death. It happens, but it's never over.

Erased means you disappear. It's more like you've been…forcibly evicted from your old life. You're still leaving your mark, you're just doing it somewhere else.

wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

Qué raro que todo hubiera cambiado tanto pero los cartones de leche siguieran siendo los mismos.

I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When

The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

The saying at Latham was 'Welcome to the rotation,' but the unspoken second half of that phrase was 'you can exit through either of two doors.

but more than anything, the homecoming nomination made me feel as though I was being pushed back into a world I was happy to leave behind

No era la vida que yo había planeado, pero sí la que tenía y, por fin, había empezado a aceptarlo.

But maybe it was better this way, remembering those few months at the beginning of the year as this wonderful thing was over now, rather than living in Cassidy's world without her

A game that I'd kept on playing because people expected me to, and I was good at doing what people expected. But not anymore, because no one seemed to expect anything from me anymore. The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Era yo el que no había entendido el cambio de sentido y se obstinaba en seguir por la ruta prevista.

How strange, for everything to shift so drastically, but for the milk cartons to stay the same.

Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of "coming of age" for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood behind.

Este es el momento en el que Occidente pasó del estadio que el sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman llamó «modernidad sólida» —un periodo en el que el cambio social aún era relativamente predecible y manejable— al de «modernidad líquida», nuestra condición actual, en la que los cambios son tan rápidos que las instituciones sociales no tienen tiempo para cuajar y consolidarse19.

I'm not the first man or the last who had a thirst to leave the past.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

Happy Christmas and I love your ears tomorrow we'll untie the package of another year. Twelve more months of summer if you stay winter if you go.

I love change, I need it.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

on all sides during the 1060s:

the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.