Quotes About Transformation

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

Destruction is a form of creation.

He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it

When you feel unable to change your bar you have become old.

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it's not so difficult to be a saint. It's something He can demand of any of us, leap.

The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triumphant beside the track. With the second the writer has been transformed into a long-distance runner - the finishing tape is out of sight, at the end of life. He must guard his energies and plan ahead. A long endurance is more exhausting than a sprint, and less heroic.

Time gives poetry to a battlefield

They looked like schoolboys, but with the Vietnamese age drops suddenly like the sun—they are boys and then they are old men.

from conditions that are calculated to have been warmer and wetter than today's 13,000 years ago,70 to conditions that were colder and drier than those at the last glacial maximum just a few hundred years later.

You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky.

Because while the world is filled with people who just need to let their demon go, there is another group who need to find themselves one.

She used to think that he was so stocky, and bull-like, but now he felt like a laundry bag filled with old coat hangers.

Kaip gali b?ti kažkuo, pirma nepabuv?s niekuo?

Can a mirror keep a print? Can you look into a mirror and see someone else? Can you step through a mirror and be someone else?

How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of?

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings.

I really think this is it... Third time lucky. This is the one... ...this is going to change everything.

Home is run no more.

The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false.

MY HUSBAND Ã¢â'¬Â¦ HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I'd be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust.