Quotes about Temporal Cycle

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The past is the present and the future too.

The line was adopted from Eugene O'Neill. See XXX.

Robert Frost

Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
The brook runs down in sending up our life.
The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
And there is something sending up the sun.

Bob Dylan

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

William Faulkner

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

Marcel Duchamp

In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.

Agatha Christie

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Thomas Carlyle

Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

Arthur Wing Pinero

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

Petrarch

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.

Persius

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

Richard Flanagan

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

Temporal Cycle Quotes