Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Changing, everything is changing.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

I love to watch times change!

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Time brings all things to pass.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

I want to change a lot.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.