Quotes About Repetition

book ends with the protagonist having the same problem

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.

an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. (Adam)

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

They always do the same thing - come in, ask for a meal, hide, and then run off with a harp or a bag full of money the minute I fall asleep,' Dobbilan said. 'And they're always named Jack. Always. We've lived in this castle for twenty years, and every three months, regular as clockwork, one of those boys shows up, and there's never been a Tom, Dick, or Harry among 'em. Just Jacks. The English have no imagination.

I forgot why throwing away a thousand boomerangs at once was a bad idea. Then it all came back to me.

waste our lives moving in a circle, in the most constricted space. We sacrifice all freedom.

There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don't hear this refrain, as if you've forgotten it.

And everything I might have been, the different futures I might have taken, all my different lives and deaths that existed in their endless possibilities were extinguished in a single repetition of her three words. "You will hunt." When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen? And all that might have been was long, long gone.

In a place of all this beauty and potential, we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?

Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does.

That message was repeated many times throughout the event—that when morphine was used to treat pain, it was not actually addictive.

Those were the worst memories. Precious and perfect. Sharp as a mouthful of glass. I lay in bed, clenched into a trembling knot, unable to sleep, unable to turn my mind to other things, unable to stop myself from remembering again. And again. And again

Think then, how do you entertain the people who have seen your act a thousand times? You dust off the old tricks. You try out some new ones. You hope for the best. And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

Cuando el mundo entero se convertía en un palimpsesto, él se convertía en un palíndromo perfecto.

You speak as a dog barks," I said. "With no end. With no sense.

felt every year twice tonight, some of them three times.

I am telling you three times.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.

The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts wir trinken dich mittags und morgens wir trinken dich abends wir trinken und trinken