Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Nothing is permanent but change.

Life is change.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Nought endures but change.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Nothing endures but change.

Everything changes.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

All things change.

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Life is constantly changing.

Nothing is forever except change.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

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.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

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

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

No changes are permanent, but change is.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

The only thing that stays the same is change.