Unrepeatable Experiences Quotes

Time flies never to be recalled.

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.