Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

27059 quotes

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"The certainty that I was not what I had been made a great change"
Pip
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"The mutability of all human things should teach us not to feel too secure."
The Narrator
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"I'm past it now. Circumstances have altered me into a person you would scarcely know me for."
Cathy Linton
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"I am a harsh, rigid man, but I wish to be a better one"
Mr. Rochester
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"I must hold the memory of our parting in a grave and solemn thought."
Pip
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"I became conscious of a change in my circumstances."
Pip
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"I am not what I once was."
Miss Havisham
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"I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality"
Sydney Carton
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"His was a solemn resolve to make a new man of himself"
The Narrator
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"The year 1775 was a year of great upheaval and change"
The Narrator
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"How strange I felt in my new home!"
Cathy Linton
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"I became hard and cold as marble."
Jane Eyre
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"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in my life."
Pip
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"I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality."
Sydney Carton
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"The old world is crumbling, and a new one is being born."
The Narrator
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"It may be that you have changed since you began."
Estella
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"I am not what I once was."
Miss Havisham
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"The uneasiness I had always known in being around her began to fade."
Pip
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"The past is gone; why should it bind us forever?"
Hester Prynne
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"I feel as though my whole existence has been a preparation for a change in me"
Sydney Carton
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"Great changes in the world are often preceded by great suffering and tribulation"
The Narrator
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"I have not been myself."
Pip
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"I felt as if I had been born anew."
Jane Eyre
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"I am transformed! I am not the man!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
Mr. Darcy
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"Where so many hours had been spent in convincing myself against you, I had not one argument left."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I had been thrown among some very rough people"
Pip
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"I found myself utterly altered from what I had been"
Pip
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"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me."
Pip
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"I am not what I once was to you."
Estella