George Eliot Quotes

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

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Everything changes but change.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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.

Change alone is unchanging.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

I believe the only thing constant in life is change. That's just the way it is, no?

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.