Herbert Stein Quotes

If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

Trend is not destiny.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.