Quotes About Change

And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the ground wailing and shuddering, and Pantalaimon beside her became a wolf and howled with bitter grief.

Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it's an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you." An interview with Philip Pullman.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do

When you're young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don't.

That's interesting," said Dr. Lieberson. "History's not over, you see. It's happening all the time.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

And when Rusakov discovered Dust, at last there was physical proof that something happened when innocence changed into experience.

You used to be optimistic. You used to think that whatever we did would turn out well. Even after we came back from the north, you used to think that. Now you're cautious, you're anxious…you're pessimistic." She knew he was right, but it wasn't right that he should speak to her so accusingly, as if it was something to blame her for. "I used to be young," was all she could find to say.

All these things that are changing…like ice breaking under your feet.

He's saying that everything you know is going to change. Things that you are familiar with will become strange and alien, and things you have never imagined will become normal.

One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.

Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.

When you're young you do think that things last forever. Unfortunately, they don't.

Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo único que puede cambiar es lo que hace.

For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease." —from "America: A Prophecy" by William Blake

When he rescued me, he was young and strong and full of pride and beauty. I loved him at once. I would have changed my nature, I would have forsaken the star-tingle and the music of the Aurora; I would never have flown again—I would have given all that up in a moment, without a thought, to be a gyptian boat wife and cook for him and share his bed and bear his children. But you cannot change what you are, only what you do. I am a witch. He is a human.

but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little at thirty-three!

Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...