#recur

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#beyond #died #drama #father #i

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#character #narrative #nation #recurring

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#ago #around #blow #centuries #freedom

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises. ↗

— Richard Russo

#find #finished #generally #guises #i

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence ... ' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him, 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' ... The question in each and every thing, 'Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?' would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#recurrence #life

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one. ↗

— Steven Wright

#recursion #humor

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#company #four #i #mother #necessarily

We are talking about predictable recurring flooding. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#flooding #predictable #recurring #talking

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. ↗

— John M. Ford

#am #different #establishment #evolution #i