A Quote by Polybius

All things are subject to decay and change.

Polybius

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Polybius
Greek - Historian
203 BC - 120 BC

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Marcus Aurelius

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Swami Vivekananda

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Gautama Buddha

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

Trevor Nunn

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Gautama Buddha

He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.

Maimonides

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

Andy Goldsworthy

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Marcus Aurelius

Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

Joseph Heller

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

Giordano Bruno

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

Paulo Freire

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.

Masao Abe

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

Gautama Buddha

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.