Quotes About Change

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells.

Nunca voltarei. Nunca voltarei porque nunca se volta. O lugar a que se volta é sempre outro, A

Now he is something anyone can be.

O amor romântico, portanto, é um caminho de desilusão. Só o não é quando a desilusão, aceite desde o princípio, decide variar de ideal constantemente, tecer constantemente, nas oficinas da alma, novos trajes, com que constantemente se renove o aspeto da criatura, por eles vestida

To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.*

Y fue así que nos despertamos en un mundo ávido de novedades sociales y que alegremente se lanzaba hacia la conquista de una libertad que no se sabía muy bien lo que era y de un progreso que jamás pudo definir.

Todo cuanto vive, vive porque cambia; cambia porque pasa; y, porque pasa, muere.

Life lobs us into the air like a stone, and we fly along, saying as we go: "You see, I'm moving.

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist.

Perhaps he still hopes. If there's any justice in the Gods' injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they're impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they're trivial. ... Every dream is the same dream, for they're all dreams. Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming.

To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel – it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

there's novelty and there's the boredom of the eternally new, and the latter brings about the death of the former.

the royal crown and robe are never as grand as when the departing king leaves them on the ground ...

More things have died in me than just my past.

Quem sabe se eu estarei morto depois de amanhã? Se eu estiver morto depois de amanhã, a trovoada de depois de amanhã Será outra trovoada do que seria se eu não tivesse morrido. Bem sei que a trovoada não cai da minha vista, Mas se eu não estiver no mundo. O mundo será diferente. Haverá eu a menos. E a trovoada cairá num mundo diferente e não será a mesma trovoada

What I was and will never be again! What I had and will never have again!

Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he flees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.

Si odio algo, es a un reformista. Un reformista es un hombre que ve los males superficiales del mundo y se propone curarlos agravando los fundamentales.

It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary.

To live is to be other. Even feeling is impossible if one feels today what one felt yesterday, for that is not to feel, it is only to remember today what one felt yesterday, to be the living corpse of yesterday's lost life.

They went by like rubbish in a river, in the river of life ...

Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming. — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2002)

How is it that I have advanced only to become what I already was? How could I know myself today when I did not yesterday?

The truth is that nothing changes anything and what we say or do only brushes the tops of the mountains in whose valleys all things sleep.