Anatole France Quote - 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 into another.

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 into another. – Anatole France

Life has 4 stages:  a baby, a child, a teenage, and an adult stage.  The type of activities done as an adult are not the same as when you are a baby, except for the nights when you are so tired and sleep like a baby.  Some adults never grow out of the child stage, that is figuratively speaking.  When you are a child you might long to be a teenager or an adult and as a teenager or an adult you might long to be a child again, but that stage has died.  The baby, child, teenage, and adult stages are a way of leaving a part of ourselves behind.