Richard Flanagan Quotes

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

History is the same thing over and over again.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

History goes in cycles.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

When does it happen?" "It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

There is nothing new under the sun.