Quotes About Recurrence

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

Ayelet Waldman

#4. It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations.

Ben Okri

#5. Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

#6. We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.

Rene Cassin

#7. When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the next recurrence - and, eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Samuel Johnson

#10. By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.

Sarah Hackley

#11. A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences.

Jean Baudrillard

#12. 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

#13. We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

John F. Carlson

#14. What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Robert Hass

#15. Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

Hanna Rosin

#18. Proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#20. An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.

Camilo Garzon

#21. It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Andre Maurois

#22. The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Harold B. Lee

#23. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Nikola Tesla

#24. Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Margaret Atwood

#25. The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurrence of opportunities; in the possibilities of repetition.

Bram Stoker

#26. 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

#27. Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.

Travis Bradberry

#28. 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

#29. I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Eric Massa

#30. If you are newly diagnosed, experiencing a recurrence, or caring for someone with brain cancer, I urge you to dig in, carry on, and fortify yourself with the knowledge that personal growth may, in fact, be obtained throughout this challenge. When

Mindy Elwell

#31. The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

Charles James

#32. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg. If

G.K. Chesterton

#33. It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#34. The procedure of process is when we start to correlate with all the stages and provide cyclic recurrence, connect one thing with another and close a loop

Sunday Adelaja

#35. The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

Stefan Collini

#36. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.

Frederick Douglass

#37. When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

Marcus Aurelius

#38. Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

George Bernard Shaw

#39. For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#40. 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

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

Will Durant

#42. 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