Solomon Quotes

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

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.

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

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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

There is nothing new under the sun.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

All new news is old news happening to new people

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.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

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.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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.

I think history is just so cyclical.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.