Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Quotes about Change -- Change
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Quotes about Change 5
There was no such thing on this earth as real change. You could change husbands, but not the situation. You could change who, but not what. We're all just spinning here, she thought, and she pictured the world as a little blue teacup, revolving like those rides at Kiddie Land where everyone is pinned to his place by centrifugal force. --Anne Tyler
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. --Washington Irving
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. --Augusto Roa Bastos
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience . . . not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. --Leo Tolstoy
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. --Samuel Johnson
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. --Elspeth Huxley
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. --James Baldwin
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