Quotes About Change

the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a… palimpsest.

First things were good, last things not so much so.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it Heraclitus says? One Cannot step in the same river twice?' ... 'More or less. I suppose a more accurate way of putting it would be You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

How wonderfully, joyously, untrammeled he had been then in his happiness. She thought it was fixed for ever, she didn't realize that childhood happiness dissolves away. If she had realized that Archie wasn't going to be that sunny innocent child for ever she would have laid up every moment as treasure.

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

More and more these days, he had noticed, he felt like a visitor from another planet. Or the past. Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.