Quotes About Recurrence

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

To quote Yogi Berra, it was déjà vu all over again.

Perhaps after all, for all our talk of change, redemption or personal growth, for all our dependence on therapists, religious faith or mood-altering drugs both legal and non, we're doomed simply to go on repeating the same patterns over and over in our lives, dressing them up in different clothes like children at play so we can pretend we don't recognize them when we look into mirrors.

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often

Scientists tell us that 98 percent of our 60,000 thoughts are repeats from the day before.

da capo ad nauseam?

There were plenty of things I was actually glad I had left unsaid. Still, the comment haunted me. It haunts me today. All the things I wish I had said when I had the chance. A moment recurs. We were

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences.

Time is a boomerang, not an arrow.

Sure, he said. He started moving the bits around. Lets see. This looks like it must say . . . and so then this would go here . . . and this . . . He paused and looked up at her. Haven't we done this before?

You know what I hate?' she said. 'When people say that history repeats itself. That's the scariest thing I can think of.

I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion, of being again committed to a tragic course of action, having learned nothing from that other time or those other times

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.