Repetitive Cycles Quotes

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

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

Events tend to recur in cycles.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

[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.

How much of you is repetition?