Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

B
"There was a moment when everything changed, and she could never go back."
Briony Tallis
B
"She had been transformed by her own lie."
Briony Tallis
H
"All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change."
Huckleberry Finn
G
"The banana company brought strange customs and stranger people."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
O
"Nothing changes instantly"
Offred
O
"Nothing changes instantaneously."
Offred
G
"In every generation, there is one who seeks to break the cycle"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
B
"She had crossed a line from which there could be no return."
Briony Tallis
J
"All things fall and are built again and those that build them again are not you."
Judge Holden
G
"It was the war that made him sad."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"He was a Taliban now. He belonged to the Taliban, not to her anymore."
Mariam
G
"Change is the only constant in Macondo."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
D
"When she stole that book, she was a girl no longer."
Death
D
"The book thief had struck for the first time—though she was not aware of it yet."
Death
D
"The war had taken everything from her, but it had also given her something precious."
Death
G
"The town that had seen miracles was now seeing only the dust of its own decline."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
L
"Sometimes I imagine how everything's changed, like there are two separate worlds now - before and after."
Liesel Meminger
G
"The river carried away all certainties."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The price of progress is often the loss of memory."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The real plague is not disease but the inability to change."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Every ending contains within it the seeds of a new beginning."
Melquiades
C
"I have learned that transformation requires both pain and courage"
Circe
P
"Change begins when you stop resisting and start accepting."
Parvaneh
G
"Without knowing why, she felt that she had been transformed into something like crystal."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"It was understood that the years of prosperity had closed for the Buendías forever."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
D
"She had lost everything and gained something else."
Death
D
"Liesel would not be the last one to leave that town and never return."
Death
C
"My transformation was not punishment but becoming."
Circe
O
"A man can change, but only if he wants to."
Ove
G
"Macondo was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)