Quotes About Recurrence

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.

Los mitos crecren como cristales, según su propia estructura recurrente, pero es necesaria la existencia de un núcleo apropiado para iniciar su crecimiento - Koestler

We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its own recurrence.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

now he had done it again.

Major depressive disorders can perniciously disable the patient in supposedly carrying out their normal functions. There are those who suffer the disabling effects in only a single episode. However, there are those whose have recurrent episodes.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

You can't call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again.

Car ce que les gens ont fait, ils le recommencent indéfiniment. Et qu'on aille voir chaque année un ami qui les premières fois n'a pu venir à votre rendez-vous, ou s'est enrhumé, on le retrouvera avec un autre rhume qu'il aura pris, on le manquera à un autre rendez-vous où il ne sera pas venu, pour une même raison permanente à la place de laquelle il croit voir des raisons variées, tirées des circonstances.

And by a strange coincidence, that reasoned fear of danger was born at the very moment when the idea of death had become indifferent to me. The fear of no longer existing had formerly horrified me at each new love I experienced—for Gilberte, for Albertine—because I could not bear the thought that one day the being who loved them might not be there; it was a sort of death. But the very recurrence of this fear led to its changing into calm confidence.

But what we call experience is only the revelation to our own eyes of one of our own character traits, which recurs naturally, and recurs all the more powerfully if we have already on some previous occasion brought it up into the clear light of consciousness, so that the spontaneous reaction which had guided us the first time becomes reinforced by all the suggestions of memory.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

This was what death would be, too, she imagined: a moment that would happen once and then recur each time it was encountered in memory,

We know that energy cannot be destroyed, but goes shape-shifting through the world. What was once in some portion that star is me now, and later I may be some strong supporting cells in the neck of an August lily, or the glint in the stem of a new-blown piece of glass. If our lot is mutability of form, then why be surprised that our energies might not be refracted and recurrent in the world.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

Repetition will be repeated

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

This is like deja vu all over again

begin, and cease, and then again begin

Surpassing surpasses only through recurrence.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.