Jacqueline Carey Quotes

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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

I know my life runs in cycles.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

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.

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

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

I've seen how this thing goes, the waves, the ins and outs of the season.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

All new news is old news happening to new people

All poetry comes from repetition.

Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.