Quotes about Transition
Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
— Cormac McCarthy
She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
— DH Lawrence
She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.
— DH Lawrence
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
— DH Lawrence
Paul felt life changing around him. The conditions of youth were gone.
— DH Lawrence
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
— Walt Whitman
Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
— Walt Whitman
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots
— Walt Whitman
Life is the little that is left over from dying.
— Walt Whitman
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
— Wendell Berry
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
— Wendell Berry
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not our last hello.
— Charles Martin