Moss Hart Quotes

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

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

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

History is a fickle lady.

Life is like this: things come and go.

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

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

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.