The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.
Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried GiantTyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.
Extraction - 2Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.
Trees, CloudsDays Gone, by RikkiEvery river reaches the ocean in its own way.
Ivern, the Green Father in League of LegendsThe meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.
Call Me By Your Name, by OliverHe who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
EnjoyingHoraceWhat I love most about rivers is
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that