Variant: Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”
Walt Whitman
(1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
María Irene Fornés
(1930–2018) American writer
On the fickle nature of theater in “Moment to Moment: with Maria Irene Fornes” https://brooklynrail.org/2002/10/theater/moment-to-moment-with-maria-irene-fornes in The Brooklyn Rail (Autumn 2002)
Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.
Denier du rêve (1934), translated as A Coin in Nine Hands (1994) by Dori Katz, Ch. 3, p. 31 ISBN 0-226-96527-9
“Death's law brings change to all created things;
Lands cease to know themselves as years roll on.
As centuries pass, e'en nations change their form,
Yet safe the world remains, with all it holds.”
Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata,
Nec se cognoscunt terræ vertentibus annis,
Et mutant variam faciem per sæcula gentes,
At manet incolumis mundus suaque omnia servat.
Book I, line 515, as reported in Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 197.
G. P. Goold's translation: Everything born to a mortal existence is subject to change, nor does the earth notice that, despoiled by the passing years, it bears an appearance which varies through the ages.
Variant translation (disputed): Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages.
Astronomica
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 44, p. 157
“Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.”
John Conington
(1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 55
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 12
“The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
Context: The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen. If you, historians, or poets, or mathematicians had not seen things with your eyes you could not report of them in writing. And if you, O poet, tell a story with your pen, the painter with his brush can tell it more easily, with simpler completeness and less tedious to be understood. And if you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Now which is the worse defect? to be blind or dumb? Though the poet is as free as the painter in the invention of his fictions they are not so satisfactory to men as paintings; for, though poetry is able to describe forms, actions and places in words, the painter deals with the actual similitude of the forms, in order to represent them. Now tell me which is the nearer to the actual man: the name of man or the image of the man. The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.