Ben Hecht Quotes

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

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

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

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

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

Life is like this: things come and go.

I think everything is temporary.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

All things are subject to decay and change.

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

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

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.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.