Kate Atkinson Quotes

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

All things flow, nothing abides.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.