Quotes About Change

The white clippings of hair fell in clumps on the cape and then scattered to the floor.

You'll see for yourself. Something will disappear from your life.

But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined.

In years past, I had carefully studied the stems, leaves, and branches and had read the tags that identified the different varieties, but I realized now that I was already unable to remember what this thing called a rose had looked like.

I wiped my palms together, brushing the petals that had stuck to them back into the stream. Petals with frilled edges, pale ones, vivid ones, petals with the calyx still attached. They all clung for a moment to the bricks of the wash landing, but in no time at all they were caught up in the stream again and melted into the mass.

Memories do not change the law.

Important things remain important things, no matter how much the world changes.

I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first—among all the things that have vanished from the island.

Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.

She got off at the train station, the final stop, but in the station saw neither signs nor people. She sat on a cold bench in the waiting room, listening. She was starting to wonder if this was really a station. Based on experience she'd assumed as much, but you couldn't count on things being the way they'd always been. Perhaps this was no longer a station, and she simply hadn't heard the news.

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. THat's no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

At that moment, the thing Knut had been perceiving as "time" melted away. Because starting with this moment, he no longer had any time to think about time.

Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Am I allowed to be happy you're going? I mean shit, I thought I was just going to work outdoors for a few months. Now I know my beautiful dreamer will be with me? This just turned to paradise.

Women and men should not marry, for love is like the seasons—it comes and goes.

Life is like carrying a message from the child you were to the old man you'll become, without losing it along the way.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Les choses se seraient arrêtées là s'il n'y avait pas eu ce coup de vent. Si on m'avait dit qu'un simple coup de vent pouvait changer le cours d'une vie, j'aurais peut-être pris les devant. Mais à dix-sept ans, on se sent en mesure de retomber sur ses pattes quoi qu'il arrive.

Il est des choses qui nous dépassent. Les contester ne nous mènerait nulle part. Les traquer nous perdrait à jamais. Il faut mettre une croix sur ce qui est fini si l'on veut se réinventer ailleurs.

The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.