Quotes About Transition

Only change brings about change.

People never die, but we travel from one world to another by leaving our flesh behind.

Sometimes we lose what we were not supposed to, by not willing to change.

We can set for ourselves a bright future only if we switch off our past.

We Only get to be known by many when we walk out of the jungle.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

Times before you, when even living men were antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.

See me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.

It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.

He hunched his shoulders and looked at the floor. With that movement, he entered the past. When he put on his jacket, kissed me again, and walked to the door, he was already a memory.

Le cou n'est-il pas l'endroit où finit la tête et où le corps commence? (p.148)

Todas las sustancias individuales fluyen y están en movimiento, perdiendo unas partes de sí mismas y recibiendo otras que vienen a ellas de cualquier sitio.

Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.

Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at night has become an image for what I now recognize as the end of my childhood.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

It marks the moment when a meandering conversation between two men took an irrevocable turn toward friendship.

Like most people confined to an institution, she had been divested of a past life.

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

My life had shrunk, and when I thought of past events, when I talked to my parents on the phone, when I saw an acquaintance or fellow student on the street, all these things seemed to be from another lifetime.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]