Melville Fuller Quotes

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

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

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

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.

The present will not long endure.

This world's a bubble.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

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

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

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

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.