Quotes About Flux

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another.

It seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing.

Cities change.

That's the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it's in their nature.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.

Nothing is settled; no truth finds general acceptance. What we do one year we undo the next, and do over again the year following. Our energy is wasted in, and our prosperity suffers from, experiments endlessly repeated.

Nothing is ever fixed. From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.

All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand: In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand: From the compulsion that all creatures binds, Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

Change is the essence of life.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

The only thing constant is change

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Life is just an ongoing process.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.