Change Quotes

"There is no such thing as Death, though there be a thing called Change." ~ She by H. Rider Haggard It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Till we can become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope From splendour he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. ~ The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien "I do know my own mind," protested Anne. "The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." ~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The ashes of the commonest fire are melancholy things, for in them there is an image of death and ruin,—of something that has been bright, and is but dull, cold, dreary dust. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens He caught the fancy of the king, knelt down a grub, and rose a butterfly. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens "Death doesn't change us more than life." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear. ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe