logo

Quotes About Change

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
~ Octavio Paz
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
~ Patton Oswalt
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
~ James Thurber
Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ Felicia Hemans
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
~ Heraclitus
I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.
~ Unknown
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
~ Keith Henson
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
~ Chief Seattle
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
~ David Nicholls
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
~ Billy Graham
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
~ Ethel M. Dell
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.
~ Phoebe Cary
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
~ James Caan
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
~ Louise Gluck
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.
~ Henry Blodget
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
~ Mason Cooley
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Identical