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  • There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

    'A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind' (1709)
  • Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

    Love   Heart   Quality  
  • I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.

    Sex   Love Is   Doors  
    William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137
  • Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

    Blaise Pascal (2014). “Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book”, p.265, Courier Corporation
  • If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

  • The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

    Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.
  • To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  • There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.27
  • Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

    Lost Love   Men   Sea  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]
  • I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

    George Wither, “I Loved A Lass”
  • Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  • A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

    Luck   Chance   Constant  
  • The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

  • Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

    Spiritual   Time   Real  
  • Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

    Infidelity   Body   Faces  
  • You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.

    Alexander Hamilton (2014). “The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay”, p.372, Yale University Press
  • Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

    'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 2, sc. 4, l. 194
  • Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

    Men   Blithe   Sigh  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]
  • Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

    Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
  • We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

    Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation
  • Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

  • Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

    "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.
  • And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

    Kissing   Dancing   Pay  
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions
  • I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

    Song   Book   Men  
    Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.492, BookCaps Study Guides
  • The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

    Funny   Humor   Fickle  
  • Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

  • Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

    Heart   Soul   May  
  • We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.

    Change   Girl   Violet  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.285, Vintage
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