Quotes About Transition

With Saint Augustine, we come to the end of the road as far as the Greco-Roman world is concerned.

the commercial stage represents the greatest change from the past.

He ripped aside the veil of respectability with which the ancients had clothed their traditional gods and goddesses and exposed the sordid reality underneath. What Socrates and Plato had started, the overthrow of the pagan pantheon, Origen's Christianity finished.

Instead of stability, Heraclitus said, there is only change: ceaseless, relentless, and without end. In the desperate watercourse of existence, any notion we have of permanent or fixed values, even of our own body, is pure illusion. Instead, everywhere we look, everything we see is in constant flux and change.

My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before.

Dingen kunnen nog zo rotsvast zitten, zolang je zelf maar blijft bewegen kun je ze altijd weer veranderen. Eén stap opzij, een stapje van niks is genoeg en heel de wereld oogt anders. Een mens moet in het leven zijn eigen coulissen verplaatsen.

Een mens kan nou eenmaal niet zomaar uit- en overstappen. Als er onderweg al plekken zijn waar je misschien nog een afsprong had durven wagen, ben je er al voorbij voordat je het doorhebt. Bovendien, waarheen kan een mens anders kijken dan vooruit.

De hoop van de ouden vergaat in rook zodat hun jongen wolken hebben om hun eigen luchtkastelen op te bouwen.

Civilizations do not then "fall"—they are merely replaced by another culture, which is the product of the new population.

Amerind civilization, for all practical purposes, disappeared. The Amerind civilization in North America "fell" because the population of North America changed.

She often used to think of the strangeness of very early life; one came, it seemed, from a dark cloud, there was a glow of light, but for a moment, and afterwards the night. It was as if one gazed at a velvet curtain, heavy, mysterious, impenetrable blackness, and then, for the twinkling of an eye, one spied through a pin-hole a storied town that flamed, with fire about its walls and pinnacles. And then again the folding darkness, so that sight became illusion, almost in the seeing.

I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

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

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

Arthur Rimbaud

Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement. (The world has no age. Humanity simply changes place.)

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

ANATOL: Ach, jak jsme se pak vraceli dom?, v ko?áÃ…â"¢e... jako dÃ…â"¢ív. Položila mi hlavu na prsa. Te? se už nikdy nerozlou?íme - Ã…â"¢ekla... MAX: Probu? se, pÃ…â"¢íteli, a koukej, abys dospÄ›l ku konci. ANATOL: "Už se nikdy nerozlou?íme"... A dnes ve dvÄ› se žením! MAX: S jinou. ANATOL: Nu co; ?lovÄ›k se vždyždycky žení s jinou.

Life is a constant process of dying.

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

And I would have, now love is over,An end to all, an end:I cannot, having been your lover,Stoop to become your friend!

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.