Quotes about Transition

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

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

Death is the entrance into the great light.

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway

I catch myself thinking about him in the past tense all the time.

I catch myself thinking about him in the past tense all the time.