E. L. Doctorow Quotes

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

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

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.

The world's a scene of changes.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

In life everything is continually in flux.

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

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

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

Everything changes.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

Changing, everything is changing.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

All things change.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.