Quotes About Recurrence

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

Our first response to hearing a story is the desire to tell it ourselves-the greater the story the greater the desire. We will go to considerable time and inconvenience to arrange a situation for its retelling. It is as though the story is itself seeking the occasion for its recurrence, making use of us as its agents. We do not go out searching for stories for ourselves; it is rather the stories that have found us for themselves.

After all, this situation, a similar one, is bound to roll around again, in a different context, a different history. Everything does. And the next time, will we (humankind) recognise it and do better?

Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within 24 hours you nearly always come across it again

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

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

Some people never really talk about anything—they just repeat the same old sentence from time to time.

Everything does go in a circle.

Success seems to go round in circles.

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When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.