Lou Reed Quotes

All things are subject to decay and change.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

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

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

All things change.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Nothing always stays the same. You don't stay happy forever. You don't stay sad forever.

That's part of show business: the moving.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Nothing is forever except change.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

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

Nothing is permanent but change.

All things flow, nothing abides.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

Things change that's the way it is.