Quotes about Transition
It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.
— Wendell Berry
only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
— William Faulkner
It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.
— William Faulkner
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.
— William Faulkner
I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.
— William Faulkner
Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.
— William Faulkner
as he strode on, moving almost as fast as a smaller man could have trotted, his body breasting the air her body had vacated, his eyes touching the objects—post and tree and field and house and hill—her eyes had lost.
— William Faulkner
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
— William James
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
— Heinrich Heine
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
— Helen Keller
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
— Les Brown
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
— Lewis Carroll