Walter Raleigh Quotes

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; 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.

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.

All new news is old news happening to new people

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.

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

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

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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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

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.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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.

I think history is just so cyclical.

History goes in cycles.

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

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

There is nothing new under the sun.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.