Quotes About Transformation

Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.

The better question might be: Please tell me which of these scraps you would have been unable to use a few years ago—and exactly what do you have to do to them to make them what you would consider "safe"?

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.

Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.

Birisi sana vurursa, sen de ona vurursun, deÄŸil mi? Siz gaddar serseriler de devlete çok sert vuruyorsunuz, öyleyse devlet niye ayn? ÅŸekilde kar??l?k vermesin. Ama yeni bak?? aç?s? buna hay?r diyor. Yeni bak?? aç?s?na göre, kötüleri iyiye dönüÅŸtürmeliymiÅŸiz. (syf. 82)

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse.

History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either.

I was cured alright.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

As one man said, I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it. That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty ashes residing somewhere inside of your ass. You've gotta face the music, which is a beautiful island outside, but you can't even bear to look out the window.

I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.

He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included.

The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel.