Quotes About Evolution

By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.

What I wanted to say was: I understand that it wasn't that you didn't want to be with me anymore, but you didn't want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.

Less takes one last look at the ancient castle of mud and straw, remade every year or so as the rains erode the walls, plastered and replastered so that nothing remains of the old ksar except its former pattern. Something like a living creature of which not a cell is left of the original.

It is not true that love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.

If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.

Though many of us take pride in how different we are from our parents, we are endlessly sad at how different our children are from us.

I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before.

We like categories and clubs as much as we ever have, it's only that the ones we thought were inviolable turn out not to be, and others that we never imagined are taking their place.

To every time, its own normality.

Creativity is the only viable source of change.

For some odd reason, Compact Discs and Digital Video Discs are spelled as discs, not disks.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

History books are being re-written all the time

People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Cambio de perfumes constantemente. Si he llevado uno tres meses, me obligo a dejarlo aun cuando todavía me guste seguir llevándolo; así, siempre que lo huelo de nuevo recuerdo aquellos tres meses. Nunca vuelvo a usarlo; se convierte en parte de mi colección permanente de olores.

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

Sometimes it seemed as if the past was a painting that she had dipped in water, allowing the colours to run and drip, merge and fade so that an entirely altered landscape remained.

But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death.

Years had passed, and all of life was different now.

Es decir, ellos, como todas las otras parejas que ha conocido, viven en un estado de suave declive, de convertirse, de modo sutil y sin torturas, cada día en algo menos de lo que eran el día anterior.