Quotes about Change

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

Things were different when I was growing up.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

That's all right with me, I like changes.

how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.

Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.

believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!