Quotes About Transition

People can cry much easier than they can change.

You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Ah! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave!

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.

the garden between dawn and sunrise?

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

I have found the funerals of friends less harrowing than the auctioning off of their property: a unique and loveable nature, already contracted to its inert possessions, is broken into money and dispersed for all time.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it was fear, not confidence, that was increasing with the ripples of uncertainty. Mine had become a world without center.

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220)

I'm not disabled I am parked in transition

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

If you try to put yourself in the position of a Roman of the late fifth century, it is easy to imagine how tempting it would have been to conclude that nothing had changed. That certainly was the optimistic conclusion. To have thought otherwise might have been frightening. And why come to a frightening conclusion when a reassuring one was at hand?

Yet "perfection," as C. Northcote Parkinson shrewdly noted, "is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

There is a striking analogy between the situation at the end of the fifteenth century, when life had become thoroughly saturated by organized religion, and that of today, when the world has become saturated with politics.

We believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 culminates the era of the nation-state, a peculiar two-hundred-year phase in history that began with the French Revolution.

Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place.

Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.

The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.