Flux Quotes

114 Flux quotes by 91 unique authors

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil,… — Camille Paglia
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability… — Jerry Saltz
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. — George Soros
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow… — Samuel Johnson
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a… — Marcus Aurelius
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of… — Alyson Noel
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your… — Mina Loy
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… — Alfred North Whitehead
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead… — Jennifer Egan
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. — Melissa de la Cruz
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung
So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky. — Thomas Hardy
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof… — Tom Robbins
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and… — Orson Scott Card
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. — Saint Augustine
Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux. — Stephen King
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… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are… — Sylvia Plath
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux… — Edward Gorey

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