Hermann Hesse Quotes

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

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

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

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 change all the time. Everything changes you.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

Nought endures but change.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

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

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.