Lucretius Quotes

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

All things are subject to decay and change.

Names come and names go.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

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

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

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

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. 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.

Time bears away all things.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

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

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

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.