Tom Robbins Quotes

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Death is the mother of forms.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

All things change, nothing perishes.

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

Life is change.

Life is about seasons, and I think you got to know the seasons.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.