Quotes About Change

reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...

I've never been able to forget the infinite little smile of pure affection that danced across his livid face. Enough gaiety to fill the universe. Few people past twenty preserve any of the affection, the affection of animals. This world isn't what we expected. So our looks change! They change plenty! We made a mistake! And turned into a thorough stinker in next to no time! Past twenty it shows in our face! A mistake! Our face is just a mistake!

A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there's only a bud, and after that nothing.

Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day!

We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal, and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery; He's our lord and master!

Things are different when you go back to them, they seem to have more power to enter into us more sadly, more deeply, more gently than before, to merge with the death which is slowly, pleasantly, sneakily growing inside us, and which we train ourselves to resist a little less each day.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving.

You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent … In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay …

Malo je bi?a kojima posle dvadeset godina ostane nešto od spontane nežnosti kao u životinja. Svet nije ono što smo mislili da je! To je sve! I zato menjamo lik! I te kako! Prevareni smo! I postaneš gad dok si rekao britva! Eto šta mi nosimo na licu pošto prevalimo dvadesetu. Grešku! Lice nam je sušta greška!

Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day. For

A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.

Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day.

On ne perd pas grand-chose quand brûle la maison du propriétaire. Il en viendra toujours un autre, si ce n'est pas toujours le même, Allemand ou Français, ou Anglais ou Chinois, pour présenter, n'est-ce pas, sa quittance à l'occasion... En marks ou francs ? Du moment qu'il faut payer...

Pe m?sur? ce r?mâi într-un loc, lucrurile ÅŸi oamenii se degradeaz?, se stric? ÅŸi încep s? put? anume pentru tine.

Nu zijn we dan aan het eind van twintig eeuwen hoge beschaving beland en toch zou geen enkel politiek stelsel twee maanden waarheid overleven. Hieronder versta ik zowel de marxistische als onze burgerlijke en fascistische maatschappij.

Les choses auxquelles on tenait le plus vous vous décidez un jour à en parler de moins en moins avec effort quand il faut s'y mettre. On en a bien marre de s'écouter toujours causer...on abrège...on renonce...ça dure depuis trente ans qu'on cause...on ne tient plus à avoir raison. L'envie vous lâche de garder la petite place qu'on s'était réservée parmi les plaisirs... on se dégoûte

En quelques mois ça change une chambre, même quand on n'y bouge rien. Si vieilles, si déchues qu'elles soient, les choses, elles trouvent encore, on ne sait où, la force de vieillir. Tout avait changé déjà autour de nous. Pas les objets de place, bien sûr, mais les choses elles-mêmes, en profondeur.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Dinosaurs lasted so much longer than we have, or probably will, yet their brains were so little. Meaning that stupidity is a good strategy for survival? Our level of intelligence could be a maladaptation, a wrong turn, an aberration.

for it was a new thing to see Meg blushing and talking about admiration, lovers, and things of that sort, and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.

Men are like tigers," Rumer said. "They don't change their stripes.

Rigidity of thought is a trap too many of us fall into. . . .

You can think you know what's best, what's right for you,and then all of a sudden something happens and turns your plans upside down