Quotes About Recurrence

History repeats itself.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

La memoria es una cosa caprichosa. Y a veces, estamos condenados a repetir las cosas que hemos olvidado.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.

Everyone knows the manner in which some specific name will recur several times in quick succession from different quarters; part of that inexplicable magic throughout life that makes us suddenly think of someone before turning a street corner and meeting him, or her, face to face. In the same way, you may be struck, reading a book, by some obscure passage or lines of verse, quoted again, quite unexpectedly, twenty-four hours later.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur." As

La Historia nunca se repite… pero las situaciones históricas vuelven a ocurrir.»

The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Todo viene en círculo. [...] La vieja rueda se vuelve, y el mismo discurso se repite. Todo ya ha sido hecho antes, y lo será de nuevo.

What one forgets once he will often forget again.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.

Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted.

History repeats the old conceits

The root principle which, by its constant recurrence in slightly different forms, binds together, like an operatic leitmotif, the most diverse material, is that if we would maintain the value of our highest beliefs and emotions, we must find for them a congruous origin.

Over and over, we begin again.

For what remains veiled in one era comes back, as a ghost, to haunt us in another.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.