Susan Sontag Quotes

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Stability is not the way of the world.

The present will not long endure.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

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.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

History is a fickle lady.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

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

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Life is like this: things come and go.