Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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

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

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

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.

We are always in transition.

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

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

But times do change and move continually.

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

All is flux; nothing stays still.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.