Quotes About Recurrence

thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.

Each day was an identical package, and the gorgeousness of them was their perfect resemblance, each to the others. Like a drug, repetition changes the size of things.

The Circle of Eternal Return was an end without an end.

No story is ever told just once.

Repetition is the death of magic.

Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.

Just like the waves that keep rolling onto the beach, happiness may recede sometimes, but then it comes back. It always comes back.

qué otra cosa es el amor sino reincidencia

Y no que esté mal si las cosas nos encuentran otra vez cada día y son las mismas.

Anger has a way of returning.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

That's the trouble about regulated ideas: the phrases are never original, the same words keep recurring.

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

speakers responsible.  And then repetition at sea is somehow not repetition; monotony is in the air, the mind is flat and everything recurs—the bells, the meals, the

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

If you have a sickness, you gotta fix that sickness, but you can't keep putting somebody into treatment over and over and over again.

I think that music is cyclical, and that trends happen and happen again.

History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

Sagen wir also, dass der Gedanke der Ewigen Wiederkehr eine Perspektive bezeichnet, aus der die Dinge uns anders erscheinen, als wir sie kennen: sie erscheinen ohne den mildernden Umstand ihrer Vergänglichkeit. Dieser mildernde Umstand hindert uns nämlich daran, ein Urteil zu fällen. Wie kann man etwas verurteilen, was vergänglich ist? Im Abendrot leuchtet allesim verführerischen Licht der Nostalgie, sogar die Guillotine.

la idea del eterno retorno significa cierta perspectiva desde la cual las cosas aparecen de un modo distinto a como las conocemos: aparecen sin la circunstancia atenuante de su fugacidad.