Gayle Forman Quotes

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Nothing is guaranteed.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

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

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

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.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

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

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

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.

Stability is not the way of the world.