Quotes About Transition

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.