Quotes About Transition

Incluso la persona más tranquila y coherente puede pasar por un gran momento de ruptura. Un periodo para la locura, por así decirlo. Seguramente todos necesitamos esos puntos de inflexión.

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you're not the same person you were either.

The morning is not my time. Darkness is my friend. A vacuum is my breath. I must be saying goodbye soon.

After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren't so easy anymore — just as a fastball pitcher's speed starts to slip away with time. Of course, it's possible for people as they mature to make up for a decline in natural talent. Like when a fastball pitcher transforms himself into a cleverer pitcher who relies on changeups. But there is a limit. And there definitely is a sense of loss.

At nineteen, I knew nothing about the inner workings of my own heart, let alone the hearts of others. Still, I thought I had a pretty good grasp of how happiness and sadness worked. What I couldn't yet grasp were all the myriad phenomenon that lay in the space between happiness and sadness, how they related to each other. As a result, I often felt anxious and helpless.

about life after divorce. Like you're walking along as always, sure you're on the right path, when the path suddenly vanishes, and you're facing an empty space, no sense of direction, no clue where to go, and you just keep trudging along. That's what it feels like.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

What season?" I asked. "A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the mirror, it looks like someone else's. If I'm not careful, I might end up left behind.

When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.

Dentro de mi, alguien, algo, se irá. Con la mirada baja, sin una palabra.

the mind is lost when the shadow dies.

Cuando uno está rodeado de tinieblas, la única alternativa es permanecer inmóvil hasta que tus ojos se acostumbren a la oscuridad

That's right," Kafuku said. "Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same.

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

But I'm not dead. I just disappeared. I do that. I move into another world, a different world. Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is. Don't you see?

Un buen día, de repente, te conviertes en un hombre sin mujer. Ese día sobreviene de repente, sin mediar el menor indicio o aviso, sin corazonadas ni presentimientos, sin llamar a la puerta y sin carraspeos. Al doblar la esquina, te das cuenta de que ya estás allí. Y no puedes dar marcha atrás. Una vez que doblas la esquina, se convierte en tu único mundo. En ese mundo pasan a decir que eres uno de esos hombres sin mujeres. En un plural gélido.

People grow up, and when they grow up they change/

A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside.

Hasta ahora había deseado permanecer eternamente en los diecisiete o dieciocho años. Pero ya no lo pretendo. Ya no soy un adolescente. Tengo sentido de la responsabilidad. Kizuki, ya no soy el que estaba contigo. He cumplido veinte años. Y debo pagar un precio por seguir viviendo.

You slowly but surely become a has-been.

The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.

I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.

We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it.