Lee Radziwill Quotes

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The world is changing very profoundly.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

Even oil wealth will not insulate a country from modernity forever.

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

But where are the snows of yester year?

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.