“Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.”

“The eye altering, alters all.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

“We want great alteration, but we want nothing new.”

William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist

“All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

“I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off…”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

“All perishes. A thing of flesh and pore
Am I. Divine impatience also dies.”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher