Eternal Flux Quotes

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

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

All things flow, nothing abides.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

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.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

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

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.