Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Only love and death will change all things.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange