Marcel Proust Quotes

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

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

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

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

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

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. 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.

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

I have to change to stay the same.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

Things change, but they stay the same.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Everything changes but change itself.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

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.

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.