Quotes about Transition

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.

We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.

Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The