Anne Carson Quotes

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Life is one big transition.

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

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

There can be no finality in politics.

Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined.

Life is constantly changing.

We are always in transition.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

In life everything is continually in flux.

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

All things human change.