Quotes About Cycle

Life was often simply the repetition of the same movements in a different order, depending on the day and the place.

Ymir's body is divided so that everything, even his eyebrows, were used in the creation of the world; the four dwarfs who hold up the sky; the wolves that chase the sun and moon; the giant's eyes that are tossed up into heaven and turned into stars: these and a host of other particulars become narrative elements within the cycle.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.

and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins.

Death is seen as far away as new life becomes closer.

For every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven: A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance. -Christian's thoughts

Death is a part of life. It is inevitable. It is not to be feared

They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

Children become adults who become children again.

No Brasil não há outono mas as folhas caem - In Brazil there is no autumn but the leaves fall

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

We can all understand why victims would want to retaliate. But retaliation often makes the original perpetrators minimize the severity and harm of their side's actions and claim the mantle of victim themselves, thereby setting in motion a cycle of oppression and revenge. "Every successful revolution," observed the historian Barbara Tuchman, "puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed." Why not? The victors, former victims, feel justified.

am lonely in the silence and I kiss your forehead. Clearly, you have problems and your menstrual cycle issues are just the tip of the iceberg. What kind of a girl climbs into a wall? You can't accept my love when you're this messed up.

That from which these things are born That by which they live That to which they return at death Try to know that

Thursday come, and the week is gone.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

So why is this happening? The answer is like the Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its own tail. When you have followed it all the way round you find yourself back where you started.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.