Quotes About Change

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

Life into death—life's other shape, no rupture, only crossing.

New Rome will be destroyed by the attacks of new vandals.

New vandals will destroy what former vandals failed to abolish.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. These are the old truths. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I got lost sorting out the ways I had aged out of the situation I was in.

I thought about diving in, about crashing headfirst into the clear shallow sea, my head splintering. I also thought about the time between diving and landing when I imagine all people changed their minds. For me it was only a flirtation, not serious, merely an acknowledgment of how much I was dreading the next hours. It cheered me that I could have that fantasy.

am someone who needs to adjust to everything.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.