Heraclitus Quotes

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

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 .

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

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

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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.

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.

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.

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

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

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.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

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

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

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.