Quotes About Change

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

I drove on through the piled masses of granite and down through the meadows of coarse grass where cows grazed. The same gaudy slacks and short shorts and peasant handkerchiefs as yesterday, the same light breeze and golden sun and clear blue sky, the same smell of pine needles, the same cool softness of a mountain summer. But yesterday was a hundred years ago, something crystallized in time, like a fly in amber

An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. Light

To say good-bye is to die a little.

Maybe I can quit drinking one of these days. They all say that, don't they?' 'It takes about three years.' 'Three years?' He looked shocked. 'Usually it does. It's a different world. You have to get used to a paler set of colours, a quieter lot of sounds. You have to allow for relapses. All the people you used to know well will get to be just a little strange. You won't even like most of them, and they won't like you too well.

To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

Good-bye, Linda. I hope you find what you want.' 'Good-bye,' she said coldly. 'I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.

Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.

We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed.

the sound of old winter ice breaking at spring's touch

History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.

We each of us have it within to make ourselves over, if we choose to do so. Most of us not only do not try, but don't even acknowledge that ability to ourselves.

for to change anything in your past would risk turning you into less than you are now.

Raymond E. Feist

I am the Gardener. I am tending a very delicate, very vulnerable flower.' 'The White?' 'Yes, the White. Nothing ever dies, Pug. It just changes. Nothing is destroyed. It is just changed to another state, from matter to energy, energy to mind, mind to spirit.

The sort of enchantment I am speaking of is nothing you can teach. It's not of the sort of magic men can employ at whim. It's a magic the gods have given to only a few lucky men and women. It's the magic of a love so real and profound that nothing can change you back once you've known it. - Kulgan, Prince of the Blood

Alors tu t'es bien amusée ? –Comme ça. –T'as vu le métro ? –Non. –Alors, qu'est-ce que t'as fait ? –J'ai vieilli

There's as many fish in the sea as ever came out of it. Fright though you are, you won't have any trouble in hooking another boy-friend.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

The artistry of the writing is meant to stir the whole of our person, since it's the whole of that person who must feel the force of philosophy and be changed as a consequence.