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Quotes About Flux

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
~ Jose Saramago
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
~ George Sand
The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux…have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh…
~ Peter Matthiessen
It's hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you.
~ Peter Rock
you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain.
~ Peter Watts
The moved and the shaken.
~ Peter Watts
Dan, you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.
~ Peter Watts
Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.
~ Peyman Vahabzadeh
Change alone is unchanging. —Heraclitus
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
~ Philip K. Dick
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
'Zabriskie Point' was a time when I was in a lot of change and flux, and these incredible visuals hit me like they had rearranged the organs in my body. The ending and the free-floating debris and everything is an image that burned itself in my consciousness.
~ Bill Pullman
Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
~ Rory MacLean
Reality is constantly changing; as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, you can't step into the same river twice.
~ Jonathan Landaw
Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
~ Jonathan Lethem
You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.
~ Jonathan Lethem
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There, like the wind through woods in riot,Through him the gale of life blew high;The tree of man was never quiet:Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
~ A. E. Housman
Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.
~ A.R. Ammons
the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Life is transition: The only things that are truly static are already dead.
~ Adam Rutherford
People change all the time.
~ Tony Shalhoub
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
~ John Henry Newman