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The only constant is change19 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusAll that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon · 1789Everything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCNo society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. — Thomas Jefferson · 1789After 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. — Carrie · 2002Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816All 19 quotes →Change7 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusAll that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon · 1789Everything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCNought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816There is nothing in this World constant, but Inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift · 1711All 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 · 1908All 7 quotes →Impermanence5 quotes
Everything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCNought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1816The 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. — Edmund Bolton · 1600There is nothing in this World constant, but Inconstancy. — Jonathan Swift · 1711Ceaselessly 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. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212River2 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusCeaselessly 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. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212The human condition2 quotes
I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats · 1903Ceaselessly 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. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212Accumulation of wealth1 quote
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. — Edmund Bolton · 1600Conservatism1 quote
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 · 1908Death1 quote
I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats · 1903Friends1 quote
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. — Carrie · 2002Inevitability of death1 quote
Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome · 396Laws of physics1 quote
That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon · 1604Life1 quote
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999Loved ones1 quote
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. — Carrie · 2002Ocean and sea1 quote
Nae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns · 1791Passage of time1 quote
Nae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns · 1791Physics1 quote
That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon · 1604Political progress1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Politics1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Progress1 quote
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. — Edmund Burke · 1777Revolution1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Status quo1 quote
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1957The ephemeral1 quote
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. — Edmund Bolton · 1600Water1 quote
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. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212