Quotes About Mutability

#1. Mutability is written upon all things.

Antoine Rivarol

#2. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

#3. Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Agnes Repplier

#6. Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Nought may endure but mutability

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

J.K. Rowling

#9. In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

Vinoba Bhave

#10. Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

Tony Kushner

#11. To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Samuel Johnson

#13. The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to the dream-like quality of our lives, their brevity, mutability and lack of solid grounds. As such, by reminding us of our mortality, it can foster in us the virtue of humility.

Terry Eagleton

#14. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

#15. Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.

Gregory Maguire

#16. He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.

Saul Bellow

#17. As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

Claudia Rankine

#18. Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.

George Orwell

#19. I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

Albert Einstein

#20. The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

William Mather Lewis

#21. she thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was rude to. Yeah,

Cari Luna

#22. When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

Katherine Heigl

#23. I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less ... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Sunil Mittal

#24. I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

Pharoah Sanders

#25. Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ...

C.S. Lewis

#26. If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

Guy Forget

#27. Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Washington Irving

#28. The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

Graham Greene

#29. A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

Reif Larsen

#30. Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.

Craig Lancaster

#31. If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

Buddy Wakefield

#32. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Roland Barthes

#33. When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

Cassandra Clare