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91. “Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Loss, Emptiness, Change, Emotion, Despair

92. “I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Loss, Realization, Change, Reflection

93. “Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of rightness as if it had been a natural all along.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change, Self-justification, Human Nature, Perception, Direction

94. “No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.”

Michel de Montaigne

Opinion, Judgment, Individuality, Change, Human Nature

95. “I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.”

Michel de Montaigne

Innovation, Skepticism, Change, Experience, Caution

96. “The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.”

Michel de Montaigne

Change, Motion, World, Philosophy, Observation

97. “The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.”

Michel de Montaigne

Planning, Time, Change, Adaptability, Wisdom

98. “I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.”

Michel de Montaigne

Change, Time, Perception, Human Nature, Philosophy

99. “The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”

Michel de Montaigne

World, Change, Balance, Human Condition, Metaphor

100. “We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”

Michel de Montaigne

Human Nature, Diversity, Complexity, Individuality, Change

101. “There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.”

Michel de Montaigne

Self-perception, Change, Human Nature, Identity, Psychology

102. “The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”

Michel de Montaigne

Familiarity, Change, Human Nature, Fear, Adversity

103. “How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

Michel de Montaigne

Belief, Change, Perception, Truth, Human Knowledge

104. “Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.”

Michel de Montaigne

Change, Attitude, Instability, Self-awareness, Human Nature

105. “I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.”

Michel de Montaigne

Self-revelation, Change, Learning, Personal Growth, Adaptability

106. “Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change, Value, Improvement, Personal Growth, Transition

107. “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change, Eternity, Existence, Impermanence, Philosophical Thought

108. “Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Immortality, Change, Life Cycles, Creative Essence, Transformation Through Time

109. “Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Change, Seasons, Transience, Beauty Of Nature, Fleeting Moments

110. “The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Nostalgia, Nature, Change, Memory, Season

111. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Transience, Beauty, Change, Nature, Positivity

112. “As in intellectual error, so in evil of any other form, its essence is impermanence, for it cannot accord with the whole. Every moment it is being corrected by the totality of things and keeps changing its aspect.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Impermanence, Error, Growth, Change, Philosophy

113. “The biggest changes in a woman’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gender, Love, Ambition, Change, Human Nature

114. “When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Relationships, Separation, Change, Identity, Emotional Complexity

115. “Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Change, Perception, Irony, Philosophical Insight

116. “But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue.”

W.H. Auden

Unexpected Events, Dreams, Change, Serendipity, Life Experiences