Quotes About Flux

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Nothing in this world is permanent.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Everything changes but change itself.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

I am not now That which I have been.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

Everything changes but change.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

The nature of war is constant change.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

Libraries may embody our notion of permanence, but their patrons are always in flux. In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.

Nothing lasts. Everything changes. But the changes are the same. Winter will always turn to spring.

Nothing´s permanent. Nothing .

But we all know that things change. Whether we want them to or not.