Don DeLillo Quotes

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

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

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

Many people are so afraid of change.

I don't like change that much.

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

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

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

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

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.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

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.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.