Quotes About Change

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. —H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens

I haven't seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven't had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don't think anybody ever gets over anything.

When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.

It was a Mexican cigarette and not so tightly packed as the brand she had smoked in the United States but in the past week or so she had gotten used to it and now liked it as well as American cigarettes.

I've heard it said that everybody stops smoking, that the trick is to be alive when it happens.

Death is not always an occasion for sorrow.

When I decided in my mid-fifties to return to a hobby I'd abandoned twenty years earlier, I didn't know what sort of a collector I'd be. As a boy I'd started out collecting everything, then narrowed my focus to British Empire—specifically, to the Scott Specialty Album for Great Britain, British Europe, and British Oceania. In my mid-twenties I'd begun collecting Benelux as well, and in my mid-thirties, when my first marriage ended, I sold everything.

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!