Quotes About Transition

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

If you live the questions, life will move you into answers.

Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.

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.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.