Quotes about Cycle

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.

Time is like a river made up of the events which hap

Nature takes substance and makes a horse. Like a sculptor with wax. And then melts it down and uses the material for a tree. Then for a person. Then for something else. Each existing only briefly. It does the container no harm to be put together, and none to be taken apart.

There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.

I walk in Nature's way until I shall lie down and rest, breathing my last in this from which I draw my daily breath, and lying down on this from which my father drew his vital seed, my mother her blood, my nurse her milk; from which for so many years I am fed and watered day by day; which bears my footstep and my misusing it for so many purposes.

Think of how many people have died, and how many more animals have been killed and eaten by humans and each other, yet the Earth is not overflowing with corpses. Life continually renews itself. * * *

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

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

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Life is a constant process of dying.