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Quotes About Return

Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laissé derrière nous, plus irrésistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour
~ Milan Kundera
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay.
~ Milan Kundera
Atunci am inteles semnificatia magica a cercului. Cand iesi din rand mai poti reveni. Randul este o formatiune deschisa. Cercul insa se inchide, si-l parasesti fara posibilitatea intoarcerii.
~ Milan Kundera
Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.
~ Milan Kundera
He has sent her back to the world she tried to escape...
~ Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
~ Milan Kundera
For twenty years he had thought about nothing but his return. But once he was back, he was amazed to realize that his life, the very essence of his life, its center, its treasure, lay outside Ithaca, in the twenty years of his wanderings. And this treasure he had lost, and could retrieve only by telling about it.
~ Milan Kundera
Every morning they would talk about the horror of that return to their native land.
~ Milan Kundera
El quid de la cuestión estaba en la imposibilidad del retorno. Todas las situaciones básicas de la vida son sin retorno. Para que el hombre sea hombre, tiene que atravesar la imposibilidad de retorno con plena conciencia.
~ Milan Kundera
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return im­plies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
with the perspective of eternal return, things appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. How can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
El quid de la cuestión estaba en la imposibilidad del retorno. Todas las situaciones básicas d ella vida son sin retorno. Para que el hombre sea hombre, tiene que atravesar la imposibilidad de retorno con plena conciencia.
~ Milan Kundera
El mito del eterno retorno viene a decir, per negationem, que una vida que desaparece de una vez para siempre, que no retorna, es como una sombra, carece de peso, está muerta de antemano y, si ha sido horrorosa, bella, elevada, ese horror, esa elevación o esa belleza nada significan.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is, to be loved," said Alexander, "in return.
~ Paullina Simons
If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.
~ Richard G. Scott
I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!
~ Charles Dickens
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.
~ Clay Aiken
I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.
~ Dhani Jones
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Ninguna cosa es más propia a Dios que el amor, ni al amor hay cosa más natural que volver al que ama en las condiciones e ingenio del que es amado.
~ Luis de León
Do whatever you must, Karigan, " he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary
~ Kristen Britain, Blackveil