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Quotes About Change

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
~ Bill Gross
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
~ Howard Schultz
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
~ Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
~ Felicity Jones
The big change is the proximity to death.
~ Leonard Cohen
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
~ Mark Twain
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
~ Arundhati Roy
I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
~ Cillian Murphy
You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
~ John Lydon
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!
~ Diana Vreeland
We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
~ Unknown
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
~ Thomas Browne
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.
~ Felicia Hemans
To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."
~ Carl Sandburg
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
~ Lucretius
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
~ W. S. Merwin
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~ Blaise Pascal