Arthur Wing Pinero Quotes

I think history is just so cyclical.

The past is the present and the future too.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

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

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

When does it happen?" "It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.