Mark Haddon Quotes

The world is changing and people don't like change.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

I think people don't really like change.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Change is hard, I should know. I should know.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.