Quotes About Cycle

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

Man is truly born the time he dies.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

death was the price of life.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

In a cyclical system, however, such a linear progression repeats itself endlessly; each end is followed by a new beginning. Determining the time system of Scandinavian mythology presents special challenges because many of the sources were recorded by Christians, whose notion of time was linear and whose notion of history called for an essentially clear chronology.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

In the midst of death we are in life