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Quotes About Cycle

Like man in the abstract, he is here to-day and gone to-morrow—but, very unlike man indeed, he is here again the next day.
~ Charles Dickens
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
~ Charles Feidelson, Jr.
It takes three springs to make one leap year.
~ The Comic Almanack, c. 1852
Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.
~ Author Unknown
Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex. And Sex has thrilled the earth From then to this, Producing grief and mirth And pain and bliss. Through Sex the seedling wakes To cleave the ground; 'Tis really Sex that makes The world go round...
~ Arthur Guiterman, "Sex," 1921
the vibrant green-yellow-pink blossom-life of spring the watery-blue radiant sunshine-breath of summer the metallic-earth-toned glowing-decay of autumn the grey-white holly-festive slow-motion of winter
~ Terri Guillemets
autumn strolls, winter slithers spring skips, summer swims
~ Terri Guillemets
summer leads into autumn autumn leafs into winter winter leans into spring spring leaps into summer
~ Terri Guillemets
If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?
~ Terri Guillemets
Seasons depart peripherally.
~ Terri Guillemets
September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August's leftovers and it ends with October's preparations...
~ Hal Borland
I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit—preferably around the sun. I don't care how much it costs, just so long as I don't end up party of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.
~ Greg Egan
Crisis management, he'd learned, generally balanced on getting others to focus on a different crisis, one of his choosing. Bait and switch, sleight of hand, a gentle tap to send the news cycle into a different spin.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow
~ Gregory Colbert
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
~ Guillermo del Toro
El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
~ Gustav Meyrink
To pass in pursuit of an ideal from the barbarous to the civilised state, and then, when this ideal has lost its virtue, to decline and die, such is the cycle of the life of a people.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Lo que ha sido no tiene razón de ser nuevamente y no será.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
~ Guy Davenport
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Elveszett a jöv?… Furcsa, mi? Ilyenkor fellázad a hús, de most nem fog… már az se lesz… Ez így fog rohadni szépen, fokozatosan, amíg nem születnek ifjak, és újrakezdik a forradalmat, ugyanolyan felemásan, hülyén, elvakultan, átgondolatlanul, félszegen, és majd belemennek a kompromisszumokba, mi mást is tehetnének… és megy tovább a tinglitangli…
~ György Spiró