Quotes About Change

The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past.

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality

La ceguera gradual no es cosa trágica. Es como un lento atardecer de verano.

El pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Today is tomorrow and yesterday.

One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.

Ya cumplidos los cuarenta años, todo cambio es un símbolo detectable del pasaje del tiempo.

Things duplicate themselves in Tlön; they also tend to grow vague or 'sketchy,' and to lose detail when they begin to be forgotten. The classic example is the doorway that continued to exist so long as a certain beggar frequented it, but which was lost to sight when he died. Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.' - Jorge Luis Borges, 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.

Ajedrez misterioso la poesía, cuyo tablero y cuyas piezas cambian como en un sueño y sobre el cual me inclinaré después de haber muerto.

Each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

was wir sind, ist unsere eigene Erinnerung, wir sind jenes trügerische Museum veränderlicher Formen, jener Haufen Spiegelscherben

Cambiará el universo pero yo no, pensé con melancólica vanidad; alguna vez, lo sé, mi vana devoción la había exasperado; muerta, yo podía consagrarme a su memoria, sin esperanza, pero también sin humillación.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Gradual blindness is not a tragedy. It's like a slow summer dusk.

Sólo perduran en el tiempo las cosas Que no fueron del tiempo.

Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la firma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias.

notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di sigarette; il fatto mi dispiacque, perché compresi che l'incessante e vasto universo già si separava da lei e che quel mutamento era il primo di una serie infinita.

non si può misurare il tempo in giorni come si misura il denaro in centesimi o in pesos, perché i pesos sono tutti uguali mentre ogni giorno è diverso e forse anche ogni ora.

S? modifici trecutul nu înseamn? s? modifici un singur fapt, ci s?-i anulezi consecinÈ›ele, care tind s? fie infinite. Cu alte cuvinte, am putea spune c? înseamn? s? creezi dou? istorii universale.

Cilv?ku nekas nesp?j main?t. M?ž?g?s atsauces uz gr?matu gudr?b?m.

al cabo de los siglos, todas las cosas recuperarán su estado anterior

Ya cumplidos los cuarenta años, todo cambio es un símbolo detestable del pasaje del tiempo;