Quotes About Recurrence

most of us are only going in circles.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Life and values do run in cycles.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

Déjà Brew: The feeling that you've had this coffee before.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Nimic nu-i pierdut pentru totdeauna. Totul se întoarce dup? o vreme, dar s-ar putea s? nu recunoÅŸti forma schimbat? care revine.

That's the problem with precedents. Even the extreme ones tend to get repeated.

Nazism was not merely a factor in the immediate past; it was a manifestation of a part of human nature, and it may recur at any time and in any place.

I've read that certain memories put down in agitation at a vulnerable age do not extinguish with time, but engrave ever deeper as they return and return.

That's what hell means, perhaps, being compelled not just to live but to relive.

when her eyes shifted to him, it was a repeat of

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

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.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

En la vida psíquica nada de lo una vez formado puede desaparecer jamás; todo se conserva de alguna manera y puede volver a surgir

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

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.