Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

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

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

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

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

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.

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

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

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

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent or vital has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.