• 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
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) 1844-1924
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. melancholy
2. ourselves
3. another
4. before
5. enter

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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. by : Anatole France

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