Quotes About Change

If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;

You're not quitting a job, you're letting go of it to seek new opportunities for further growth. When

It's your right to change your mind. What was possible when you agreed to something might not be possible anymore. This is normal in a world where things are constantly changing. It's a shame to inconvenience someone, but you have to look after yourself.

There is the status quo, the event that kicks things off, the set of consequences for changing the status quo, the climax or resolution, and then what happens after the fact.

Et il partira. Il sortira de sa vie comme l'on sort d'une pièce en s'excusant de s'être trompé de porte.

Tu as encore quelque chose à me dire ? lui demande-t-elle d'une voix neutre. Non, reconnaît-il, avec l'impression d'entendre ce petit déclic qui signale que le présent vient de se changer en passé.

Alice: I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over the other one until one day you looked and the person you knew was gone. And instead there was a half-ghost sitting there who had only one thing to say: All the beautiful things of this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

I'm afraid the truth is you're putting yourself in for plenty of disappointment if you expect people to hang around for very long in this life!

Indeed, thought will go on fooling them into the belief that more of the same will ultimately become something new.

The I is such that it can assert itself, absolve itself, undergo countless permutations.

Life, he told himself, is a palimpsest of expunged experiences.

Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.

After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur?

Il lui semblait atteindre un carrefour de sa vie, ou plutôt une lisière d'où il pourrait s'élancer vers l'avenir. Pour la première fois, il avait dans la tête le mot avenir, et un autre mot: l'horizon. Ces soirs-là, les rues désertes et silencieuses du quartier étaient des lignes de fuite, qui débouchaient toutes sur l'avenir et l'HORIZON.

One has to retire eventually, Guy.

Life is completely different when you live near a railway station. It feels as if you're just passing through. Everything is temporary. One day or another, you'll hop on a train.

Something—he wondered later if it was simply his youth—something that had weighed upon him until that moment broke off him, the way a piece of rock slides slowly into the sea and disappears in a spray of foam.

Ng??i ta không già ?i. V?i nh?ng n?m tháng trôi qua, nhi?u ng??i và nhi?u th? r?t cu?c tr? nên hài h??c và n?c c??i ??n m?c b?n ném vào h? và vào chúng m?t cái nhìn tr? con.

How much longer would we go on being old young people? They waved goodbye to me. I was moved by Annette. She and I were exactly the same age, and she'd become one of those slightly faded Danish beauties who used to attract me when I was twenty. They were older than I was at that time, and I was grateful for their tender protection.

Mais, au bout d'un demi-siècle, les quelques personnes qui furent les témoins de vos débuts dans la vie ont fini par disparaître.

Ich finde es etwas weniger traurig, wenn alles bleibt, wie es immer war.