Quotes About Repetition

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something intensely personal, a way of reaching my hands out towards my maker. I recite some mantras my parents taught me as a child; there is something reassuring about those ancient words, hallowed by use and repetition over thousands of years.

People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events that were not very important. Amusement

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

In the indigenous world, we assign sacred value to circles. But sometimes a circle just means you keep returning to the same shit again and again. This book is a series of circles, sacred and profane.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I could write "I don't know" one million times and publish that as my memoir. And, yes, it would be repetitive, experimental, and more metaphor than history, but it would also be emotionally accurate.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. And, maybe, this repetition can become a chant inside a healing ceremony.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Life is full of circles

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?