Quotes About Change

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

We can't change the world, but we can change the subject

If we were all suddenly somebody else.

He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.

The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.

Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always. -Stephen Dedalus-

What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.

Where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green...

sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

the slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.

God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

The trees do not resent autumn nor does any exemplary thing in nature resent its limitations.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:

Don't mope over it all day, he said. I'm inconsequent. Give up the moody brooding.

The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.

He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret.

Cos'è uno spettro? [...] Uno che è svanito nell'impalpabilità per morte, per assenza, per cambiamento di usi.

en reuniones como ésta vienen a nuestra mente pensamientos tristes: el recuerdo del pasado, de la juventud, de los cambios, de rostros desaparecidos a los que echamos en falta esta noche. Nuestro viaje por la vida está jalonado de esos tristes recursos y, si tuviésemos que estar pensando en ellos todo momento, no encontraríamos el valor de acabar nuestra obra entre los vivos

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here.

pocket-book packetboat, gapman gunrun;

The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future