Hermann Hesse Quotes

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

There is nothing so stable as change.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Everything changes but change itself.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Change alone is unchanging.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Everything changes but change.

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.