Walter Mosley Quotes

No storm lasts forever no matter what it is. Nature builds calmness within its storms. That's true in our own lives as well. When you reach the zenith of where you are going in your life, or in a relationship; the only place you can go is down or up. That's the nature of this universe; a cyclical thing. The seasons, the moon; everything has a cycle to it.

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

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.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

You've got to be able to take the highs and the lows, and certainly I am not very good at taking the lows. I'll be the first to admit it. But when the highs come your way you've got to treasure them because you never know how many more you'll get.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.

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.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

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

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.