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Quotes About Repetition

Y en el juego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que madura y mi voz quemadura y mi bosque madura y mi voz quema dura
~ Xavier Villaurrutia
Each leaf had shuddered in the wind on any given yesterday. Each cloud drifting overhead had blown across those skies the year before. Nothing had changed, and nothing could change. The world felt frozen in front of me, like a family photo trapped in a frame. This landscape had imprisoned me since I was born.
~ Xiaolu Guo
And it helped that he forgot what he'd taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally.
~ yalom irvin d
in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 "There is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything new of which one might say, 'See this, it is new?' Already it has existed for ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of earlier things; and of the later things which will occur, there will be no remembrance among those who will come later still.
~ David Montaigne
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
~ David Nicholls
And there it was. She'd said it and now I could say it back, the most banal and brilliant exchange of dialogue, which we'd repeat, over and over, for just as long as we meant it.
~ David Nicholls
That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella.
~ David Nicholls
The sweet habit of each other had begun to put lines around her mouth, lines that looked like quotation marks – as if everything she said had been said before.
~ David Nicholls
Repetition Compulsion": Doing "It" Over and Over Again
~ David P. Celani
I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.
~ David Peace
Intentional actions, repeated over and over, become habits. Habitual ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and reacting construct and compose my sense of of self: the Kind of person I am. The kind of person I am does not fully determine what occurs to me but strongly affects what happens and how I respond to it.
~ David R Loy
We recall that there are two ways of going around: The spiral is positive repetition, ever-evolving in an upward trend. The spinning wheel in the snow is the negative repetition, ever wasting energy.
~ David Richo
It's probably the thousandth time
~ David Rosenfelt
I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.
~ David Sedaris
Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
~ David Sheff
changes." And then we start again. It's like Groundhog Day. It may seem like you've made no progress and are starting over, but you aren't. Every repetition is different; the lessons are different because you are.
~ David Sheff
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
~ David Suzuki
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK.
~ David Walliams
Tom!" said Tom. "Tom!" exclaimed the doctor, as if he was about to have guessed it. He wrote down the next two letters. "So what do they call you? Thomas? Tommy? Big Tom? Little Tom? Tom Thumb?" "Tom," replied Tom wearily. Tom had already said his name was Tom. "Do you have a surname?
~ David Walliams
Say goodnight, Eric," he said. "Goodnight, Eric," repeated the boy. "WAIT! I am Eric!
~ David Walliams
The channel got switched to Fox News and a panel of experts was desperately trying to fill airtime by finding ways to rephrase the nothing that they knew, over and over again.
~ David Wong
It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself
~ Dean Cavanagh
Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.
~ Max Patrick