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Topic·The only constant is change✕clear

But times do change and move continually.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens · 1599

★ 1.2

Religious literature

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy · 1908

★ 1.9

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Leopard · 1957

★ 1.9

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

1212

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

There is nothing in this World constant, but Inconstancy.

1711

★ 2.1

The withered primrose by the mourning river, The faded summer’s sun from weeping fountains, The light-blown bubble vanished for ever, The molten snow upon the naked mountains, Are emblems that the treasures we up-lay Soon wither, vanish, fade, and melt away.

1600

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

1604

★ 3.6

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

1777

★ 3.6

I heard the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.”

1903

★ 3.6

Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

396

★ 3.7

Nae man can tether time or tide.

1791

★ 3.7

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1816

★ 3.7

Revolution do not stand still.

1918

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Walflower · 1999

★ 3.7

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Plato, Cratylus · 348 BC

★ 3.8

Historical literature

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1789

★ 3.8

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Thomas Jefferson

Letter to James Madison, 1789 · 1789

★ 3.8

TV program · Romantic comedy (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it’s comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away.

Sex and the City · 2002

★ 3.8

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.

★ 7.0