Quotes About Repetition

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

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?

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

Even everything will come to failure and seems it always like that, i'll just start again. The biggest ability i have, is ability to keep repeat on fail.

Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.

Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The

This had happened before. She had remembered, only to see it all slip away. She had been insane, many times.

This came to be a ritual, more and more meaningless as it was repeated, but a ritual which nevertheless gave his life the only shape it now had.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?

They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.

Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

She'd found the mantra calmed her in life as well as in the car, so whenever she felt fear well up, as it was at the moment, she repeated it to herself. I am having a safe, uneventful journey . . . I am having a safe, uneventful journey . .

more than once, and even her dad had mentioned it, laughingly. "That's

Most crimes are committed by 'criminals'—that is to say, by individuals habituated by environment and repetitious conduct to the pursuit of law-breaking.

You idiot,' Layla said. 'You sneering, despicable - ' 'You're beginning to repeat yourself.

E così in eterno ogni perla del mare ricopia la prima perla, e ogni rosa ricopia la prima rosa

espíritu de la serie «Seinfeld», que aún vemos todas las noches sabiéndonos como nos sabemos casi todos los capítulos de memoria.

History repeats the old conceits