John Knowles Quotes

All things are subject to decay and change.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

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

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Body is the name of a series of changes.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Nothing is forever except change.

Nothing is permanent but change.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.