Quotes About Flux

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Nothing was sacred, everything was sacred, everything changed, everything stayed the same.

When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

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There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.

September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.

A strange ripple...like an unexpected changing of the tide.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

MOST BIG BESTSELLERS of the past deserve to be relegated to the damp bookshelves of guest bedrooms in country houses, but Thy Neighbor's Wife is not one of them. The writing of it took Talese nine years, and those years show, in the richness of the stories, in the density of detail, in the sweeping, panoramic view he gives us of America in flux.

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

Everything changed. The world. The seasons. Time. People. Nothing and no one ever stayed the same.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

This is life," Luther said. "We change, we alter ourselves, we grow or shrink. It's part of the human condition.

All was movement, all was change, and somehow this was visible and yet unimaginable.

Changelessness is decay. A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse. Changelessness is a change for the worse

He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.

We're not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day, life is a continuous state of flux. We evolve. The only difference is that now we are a little closer to death. What's so bad about that? Love and friendship do not age.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

There is nothing permanent except change.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

All things change, nothing is extinguished.