David Mitchell Quotes

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined.

I believe the only thing constant in life is change. That's just the way it is, no?

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

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

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

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.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

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

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

Everything changes and nothing stands still.