Heraclitus Quotes

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.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

All things flow, nothing abides.

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

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

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

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

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

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

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

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

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.

Nothing always stays the same. You don't stay happy forever. You don't stay sad forever.

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

We are always in transition.

All things are subject to decay and change.

Nothing is forever except change.