Quotes about Transition
Change in all things is sweet.
— Aristotle
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
— Marcus Aurelius
Time is like a river made up of the events which hap
— Marcus Aurelius
There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.
— Marcus Aurelius
You can live here as you expect to live there.
— Marcus Aurelius
When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change
— Marcus Aurelius
We cannot step twice into the same river
— Marcus Aurelius
All those people who came into the world with me and have already left it.
— Marcus Aurelius
When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.
— Marcus Aurelius
In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;
— Margaret Atwood
Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.
— Margaret Atwood