“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix”
Christina Baldwin
“Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.”
Woody Allen
“This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .”
“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.”
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