Quotes About Cycles

people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Never take anything for granted because sooner or later the wheel turns.

when we're in emotional pain, we think it's a mistake, something that needs to be remedied. 'We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It's just like that.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

We do not get lots of realizations in our lives as much as we get the same ones over and over.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must die.

the main lesson of history is: humans don't learn from history.

Life has a strange rhythm. It takes a while to fully be aware of this (...) but the rhythm is there. The tempo shifts and fluctuates; there are structures within structures, patterns within patterns.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ 1880 ]

History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.