Quotes About Inconstancy

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

When we feel for certain that we are alive, then we know for certain that we shall go on living. Those who have never put life to the test, in all possible ways, these keep on crying out: Life is fleeting, Life is waning, Life is like a dew-drop on a lotus leaf. But, isn't life inconstant? Only because its movement is unceasing. The moment you stop this movement, that moment you begin to play the drama of Death.

I get bored easily.

My problem is that what I like changes from week to week. Even the stuff in my suitcase right now I don't like any more.

the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

Those in favour rarely stayed in favour; it was just a question of when they fell.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.

We can get hot and bothered quicker over nothing, and cool off faster than any nation in the world.

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.