Lionel Shriver Quotes

Life is change.

A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.

Everything is going to change.

Life is one big transition.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Everything changes.

Changing, everything is changing.

All things change.

Everybody is changing.

Change is the essence of life.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

Football, like life, is about change.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.