Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

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"I came back wrong."
Theon Greyjoy
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"The journey transforms the traveler"
Genly Ai
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"We cannot return to who we were"
Estraven
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"The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows"
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"He had become what they needed him to be. But it destroyed what he was."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"We are the voices of the Kesh, and we say: change"
Estraven
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"I had to become Gethenian to understand Gethen"
Genly Ai
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"I came to Winter to bring it into the Ekumen, but Winter changed me first"
Genly Ai
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"I've been falling my whole life."
Theon Greyjoy
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"To endure is to change, and not to change is to cease to exist"
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"You cannot go home again"
Genly Ai
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"I had become one of them"
Genly Ai
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"I came as a messenger, but I became a man."
Genly Ai
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"I am no longer who I was."
Genly Ai
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"The greatest strength is the ability to adapt."
Ryland Grace
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"We leave Solaris changed, but unchanged—forever suspended between two worlds."
Kris Kelvin
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"The hunt had changed me forever."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"The future belongs to those who can adapt faster than others."
Thomas Wade
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"The old must give way to the new."
Paul Atreides
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"I'm not really changing into someone else. I'm becoming more myself."
Charlie Gordon
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"The tragedy is not in becoming less, but in having been more and losing it."
Charlie Gordon
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"I have learned that change is not something that happens to us, but something we gradually become"
Klara
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"Change is the only constant we possess."
Shevek
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"What we call progress may be merely escape."
Kris Kelvin
C
"The effect has worn off. It always wears off."
Charlie Gordon
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"The regression is accelerating. I can feel it happening."
Charlie Gordon
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"I've touched genius, and now I'm losing my grip on it."
Charlie Gordon
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"You cannot choose your future, but you can choose your actions today."
Paul Atreides
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"The future is not written; it is chosen."
Paul Atreides
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"The memory of who I was before haunts me now that I understand what I've become."
Charlie Gordon