Quotes About Cycle

The man who drinks Zambezi waters must always return to drink again.

for every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation. IX

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Whate'er is born of mortal birth    Must be consumed with the earth

Do we fear death? Of course. But it is death that makes room for birth, and the cycle of life is as natural as the rise and fall of the Nile. Death is our last and greatest duty.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.

It does last, Horace said. Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.

which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one...

Again. Sadder than was. Again. Saddest of all. Again.

You'll get back to where you came from.

Nereden geldinse, oraya döneceksin.

Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again...

Indeed, certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable, you should not grieve.

Death is tolerable only when it leads again to life.

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

The life that you're living today is only a bubble in the cosmic stream, shaped by the karma of other lifetimes. The one who is your husband in this birth was perhaps your enemy in the last, and he whom you may hate, may have been your beloved. Why weep for any of them, then?

The life that you're living today is only a bubble in the cosmic stream, shaped by the karma of other lifetimes. The one who is your husband in this birth was perhaps your enemy in the last, and he whom you hate may have been your beloved. Why weep for any of them, then?

However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Four o'clock is like the PMS stage of the daily cycle; you're meant to go for a walk, take a nap, or get in touch with your feelings and inner wisdom, not reach for sugar.