inevitable transition Quotes

Only love and death will change all things.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

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.

The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.