Jonathan Swift Quotes

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

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

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.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

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

Stability is not the way of the world.

Nothing endures but change.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

History is a fickle lady.

Everything changes.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

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

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

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.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

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