Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

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

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

There is nothing permanent except change.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Nothing endures but change.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

Everything changes every day.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

I believe the only thing constant in life is change. That's just the way it is, no?

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Things change that's the way it is.

Nought may endure but Mutability.