Quotes About Repetition

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

A lesson will REPEAT itself until LEARNED.

Sometimes in life, your situation will keep repeating itself until you learn your lesson.

What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Every time I'm supposed to come see him I trick myself into thinking that it's gonna be different this time. But it never is. It's always just different shades of the same.

This water lily was the same, and it was also like one of those miserable creatures whose singular torment, repeated indefinitely throughout eternity, aroused the curiosity of Dante, who would have asked the tormented creature himself to recount its cause and its particularities at greater length had Virgil, striding on ahead, not forced him to hurry after immediately, as my parents did me.

Car ce que les gens ont fait, ils le recommencent indéfiniment. Et qu'on aille voir chaque année un ami qui les premières fois n'a pu venir à votre rendez-vous, ou s'est enrhumé, on le retrouvera avec un autre rhume qu'il aura pris, on le manquera à un autre rendez-vous où il ne sera pas venu, pour une même raison permanente à la place de laquelle il croit voir des raisons variées, tirées des circonstances.

All the more because situations, while repeating them

Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.

nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How

cannot say, now that I come to think about it, how many times I heard the word "cousin

the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before;

a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

And thinking again of the sameness of Vinteuil's works, I explained to Albertine that the great men of letters have never created more than a single work, or rather have never done more than refract through various media an identical beauty which they bring into the world.

For what people have once done they will do again indefinitely, and if you go every year to see a friend who, the first time, was not able to meet you at the appointed place, or was in bed with a chill, you will find him in bed with another chill which he has just caught, you will miss him again at another meeting-place at which he has failed to appear, for a single and unalterable reason in place of which he supposes himself to have various reasons, drawn from the circumstances.

Está pretendiendo que todo se repita en una historia imaginada no por usted sino por Bioy Casares.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Why was success required of a person? And once you were successful, life required you to do it again and again.