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Quotes About Recurrence

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.
~ James Bobin
One more thing, one more time.
~ Josh Sundquist
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
~ Alan Lightman
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!
~ Buck Henry
What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
~ Robert Hass
I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.
~ Stan Lee
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
~ William Shakespeare
I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.
~ Lauren Kate
History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.
~ Mark Twain
Aside from recurrance, revision, and commensurate symbolic reference, echoes also reveal emptiness. Since objects always impede acoustic reflection, only empty places can create echoes of lasting clarity.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
with me losing myself in such a dream, over and over again too . . .
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.
~ Martin Heidegger
The fights are always the same
~ Stephen Chbosky
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
~ Stephen King
Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.
~ Stephen King
Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.
~ Stephen King
What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...
~ Stephen King
Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.
~ Stephen King
Sooner or later, everything old is new again.
~ Stephen King
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as they might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.
~ Stephen King
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it had started.
~ Stephen King
Because everything that goes around comes around. Maybe it's luck or maybe it's fate, but either way, it comes back around.
~ Stephen King
She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.
~ Jojo Moyes