Quotes about Cycles

And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine; it is not a picture, a diagram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an explanation; it is not a law. It is precisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, which is a world of living creatures, natural orders and cycles, many small, fragile lights in the dark.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.

Often our thinking goes around and around in circles, so we lose all our joy in living.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.