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Quotes About Cycle

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
~ Henrietta Zolde
Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
~ Phillip Gribble
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
~ Rudyard Kipling
No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
~ Hal Borland
The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
~ Horace
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.
~ Anonymous
"There's no such thing as death" — In nature, nothing dies; From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. The faded leaf that falls All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth.
~ Charlotte Young, 1849
There is nothing hot that will not get cold.
~ Haitian proverb
Drugi dan, druga i nafaka.
~ Ivo Andri?
travka treba i rosu i kosu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Life and death oppose each other, yes, but it is only in their opposition that either can exist at all. There is no death without life, and no life without death.
~ J. Robert King
Life is full of circles
~ J.D. Robb
The jackal rips out the hare's bowels, but the world rolls on.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.
~ J.M. Coetzee
me refiero al mundo, al ancho mundo. Pues eso es el mundo desde cierta perspectiva: una prisión en la que te vas deteriorando, te encorvas, padeces incontinencia, mueres y luego (si crees en ciertas historias en las que yo no creo) te despiertas en alguna playa desconocida donde tienes que repetir otra vez toda la función.
~ J.M. Coetzee
We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis.
~ J.P. Moreland
Turned out, her version of true love had a compulsive element to it. Made sense. Happiness had always bored her. A cycle of aching need, followed by ecstatic acquisition or fulfillment, culminating with a glow of satisfaction? That was her fucking jam.
~ J.R. Ward
He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.
~ Jack Campbell
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
~ Jack Kerouac
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
~ Jack Kerouac
All you want to do is run out there and get laid and get beat up and get screwed up and get old and sick and banged around by samsara, you fucking eternal meat of comeback you
~ Jack Kerouac
the cause of death is birth
~ Jack Kerouac
the whole world's coming on like a high school sophomore eager to learn what he calls New things, mind you, the same old sing-song sad song truth of death . . . because the reason I yell death so much is because I'm really yelling life, because you cant have death without life
~ Jack Kerouac