Susan Sontag Quotes

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Everything changes but change.

There is nothing so stable as change.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Change alone is unchanging.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

But times do change and move continually.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

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

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.