The quote "Nothing’s different, but everything has changed." is famous quote attributed to Charles de Lint (1951), author.
“The Forever Trees”, p. 331
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Variant: You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different.
“Everything is different from now on. Something, something very fundamental has changed, here.”
William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
Context: I think the last time... the last time I had one of those "CNN moments," where I was slammed right up against the windshield of — of the present — would have been flipping on the television one day, and seeing that Federal Building in Oklahoma City lying there in its own … crater, and listening to a little bit of the audio, and … and getting the idea that something, something bad had happened in Middle America. And I had … some … very, very deep within me, something seemed to say, "Everything is different from now on. Something, something very fundamental has changed, here." … Whenever something like this happens, and I have one of these moments, it ups the ante on being a science-fiction writer. It changes … it changes the nature of the game.
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”
Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer
“… though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View
“Everything changes and nothing stands still.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted by Plato in Cratylus, 402a
Variants and variant translations:
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Everything flows and nothing abides.
Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Everything flows; nothing remains.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
All is flux, nothing stays still.
All flows, nothing stays.
Πάντα ῥεῖ
Everything flows.
This statement occurs in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, 1313.11; while some sources attribute to Simplicius the coining of the specific phrase "πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei)", meaning "everything flows/is in a state of flux", to characterize the concept in the philosophy of Heraclitus, the essential phrasing "everything changes" and variations on it, in contexts where Heraclitus's thought is being alluded to, was current in both Plato and Aristotle's writings.
“Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe.”
Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part I
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Context: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
