Eternal Recurrence Quotes

#1. And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Richard Powers

#2. Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. Few things in life are certain, and one of them is that you can turn on the television at three in the morning and someone will be singing and dancing on the Indian channel. Proof of Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence.

Jessica Zafra

#4. But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal that one most loves life and the world.

Alexander Nehamas

#5. If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams.

J. B. Bernstein

#6. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

Milan Kundera

#7. So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Will Durant

#8. I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

Vijay

#9. God's Kingdom abideth forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Democritus

#11. Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

Bryan Procter

#13. All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

George Eliot

#14. A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

Robert Griffin III

#15. It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Norman Cousins

#16. We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its own recurrence.

Don DeLillo

#17. We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

Jeb Bush