Circular Time Quotes

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

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.

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

In my end is my beginning.

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)

The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

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

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.

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

I think after you live it's like before you lived.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

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.