Quotes About Change

We want to forget until we start to forget. from the poem Regret

I'd like to tell you not to be afraid, but I've lost my voice. I'm not used to all these legs, these claws, these feelers. It's the old story, predictable as fallout—the rearrangement of molecules. And everyone is surprised and no one understands why each man tries to kill the thing he loves, when the change comes over him. So now you know what I never found the time to say. Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower. You know I always loved you.

history is change. You can't stop it; all you can do is try to keep from getting run over by it.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

With new hope. We build new lives. Why complain when it rains? This is what it means to be free.

Time does not die; only people.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

When the stunned soul can first lift tired eyes On her changed world of ruin, waste, and wrack, Ah, what a pang of aching sharp surprise Brings all sweet memories of the lost past back, With wild, self-pitying grief of one betrayed, Duped in a land of dreams where Truth is dead!

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Things are not revolutionalized by making revolutions, The real revolution lies in the solution of existing problems.

And what about motor-cars?' 'So much the better,' replied the Great Authority: 'they will no longer be able to run in the streets.

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.