Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. W. Somerset Maugham
  5. Change

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes about Change

All W. Somerset Maugham Quotes Age Aging Art Atheism Beauty Belief Change quotes Character Children Common Sense Community Consciousness Country Criticism Culture Death Desire Dignity Diversity Doubt Duty Dying Education Effort Ethics Evil Exercise Failure Falling In Love Fashion Friendship Funny Giving God Goodness Grace Greatness Happiness Hate Heart Heaven Home Humility Husband Imagination Inspirational Intelligence Judging Kindness Learning Life Literature Love Lying Maturity Memories Money Morality Morning Motivational Pain Passion Past Perfection Personality Philosophy Pleasure Politics Praise Quality Reading Regret Religion Reputation Romance Sacrifice Sin Social Justice Soul Study Success Suffering Talent Teaching Time Tolerance Tragedy Truth Virtue Weakness Wealth Wine Wisdom Wit Work Writing Youth
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

W. Somerset Maugham
Change, Enjoy It While It Lasts, Delight
"The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Change
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Change
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham
Motivational, Change, Believe

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

W. Somerset Maugham
Change, Moving, Tired
W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.

W. Somerset Maugham
Change, Dream, Memories

You May Also Like: