Quotes About Repetition

As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After

our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle. Why do I do the very thing that will guarantee my own unhappiness over and over again?

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.

I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt with the bad guys choosing to reuse a location different bad guys had used before them. Maybe there was a Villainous Time-share Association. Maybe my life was actually a basic-cable television show, and they couldn't afford to spend money on new sets all the time.

Which put me one step ahead of where I was, now. I had already killed the Nightmare-or helped to kill it, at least. Something about that just didin't seem fair. There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain

Do you know how to really control someone...? Give them what they want. Give them what they need. Give them what no one else can give. If you can do that, they'll come back to you again and again.

There was too much of a sameness about the evening's delights. He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.

She didn't know the songs, I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience.

Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.

The serpent eating itself, tail-first. We live to repeat the same mistakes, to push away the ones we love, to move on when we want to stay, to wait in silence when we should speak. In the life we have chosen to lead, loss is the only constant. Loss, that eats up everything – like the snake, even itself.

Talvez a imaginação lhe mostrou, ao longe, o famoso olho da opinião, a fitá-lo sarcasticamente, com um ar de pulha; talvez uma boca invisível lhe repetiu ao ouvido as chufas que ele escutara ou dissera outrora.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Campbell Julia says Don't do this to me Do what? Push me off the same cliff twice

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Just so you know, when they say once upon a time....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.

Being let down over and over and over again by the same person

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway.

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid