Heraclitus Quotes

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

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.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

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

All things are subject to decay and change.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Nothing is forever except change.

Nothing is permanent but change.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.