Quotes about Transition

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain