Quotes About Transition

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

All adventurers came to grief. Perhaps they had not been able to make the transition, to alchemize the life of the mind into the life of the senses. They died when their minds were overpowered by nature, yet they did not hesitate to dilute it in alcohol.

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress. The faithful wife is only one phase, one moment, one metamorphosis, one condition.

What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another. Jung has mentioned this. The neurotic is obsessed with one kind of problem. He cannot move on.

hayat bir olma sürecidir, içinden geçmemiz gereken süreçlerin bir kombinasyonudur. insanlar?n burada baÅŸar?s?z olduklar? nokta; bir durum, kendilerine bir hal seçip orada kalmak istemeleridir. bu bir nevi ölümdür.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Stories do not end.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

The end of every road is only the beginning of a new one, even longer and more difficult

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beat- ing heart. Soon you'll cross the border and be with me. I'm so stoked. I miss you wicked.

with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Look! I have here a number of white pebbles. I let them soak in the shade, then hold them in the hollow of my hand and wait until their soothing coolness is exhausted. Then I begin once more, changing the pebbles and putting back those that have lost their coolness to soak in the shade again. . . Time passes and the evening comes on. . . Take me away; I cannot move of myself. Something in my will is broken.

Veo peor y se me cansan más deprisa los ojos. También oigo peor. Me digo que sin duda no es malo que se aleje así de nosotros, progresivamente, una tierra que de lo contrario nos costaría demasiado dejar; que nos costaría demasiado dejar de golpe. Lo admirable sería, al mismo tiempo, acercarse progresivamente a… otra cosa.

It was that ambiguous hour when night is drawing to an end, and the devil casts up his accounts.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean, what do men do anyway? They work, eat, drink, and play games. Sex for them is in the sports and recreation category. You can't live with a man and not be lonely.' 'You think so?' 'Absolutely. Besides, once you have kids, it all changes anyway. Everything seems to make sense then.

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.

He thought of winter coming, how it's the only season that stays like it will never leave;

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.