Quotes About Change

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you just wind up tryin to minimize the pain. Anyway this country aint the same. Nor anything in it. The war changed everthing. I dont think people even know it yet.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.

Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

I dont know what happens to country.

Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.

I've lot a lot of friends over these last few years. Not all of em older than me neither. One of the things you realize about gettin older is that no everbody is goin to get older with you.

We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as once we were and yet we mourn the days.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everbody is goin to get older with you.

Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.

He said that like every man who comes to the end of something there was nothing to be done but to begin again. No puedo recordar el mundo de luz, he said. Hace muchos años. Ese mundo es un mundo fragil. Ultimamente lo que vine a ver era mas durable. Mas verdadero.

He rode out in the dark long before daylight and he rode the sun up and he rode it down again. In the oncoming years a terrible drought struck west Texas. He moved on. There was no work in that country anywhere. Pasture gates stood open and sand drifted in the roads and after a few years it was rare to see stock of any kind and he rode on. Days of the world. Years of the world. Till he was old.

White: Well you surprise me. And you've come to what conclusions? Black: I aint. I'm still thinkin. White: Yes. Well, I'm not. Black: Things can change. White: No they cant. Black: You could be wrong. White: I dont think so. Black: But that aint somethin you have a lot of in your life. White: What isnt? Black: Being wrong. White: I admit it when I'm wrong. Black: I dont think so. White: Well, you're entitled to your opinion.