Birth Quote by Alan Lightman

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

— Alan Lightman

“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is…

— Milan Kundera

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's…

— Rudolf Steiner

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on…

— Alan Watts

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

— Frederick Lenz

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes…

— Gertrude Stein

“We measure time according to the movement of countless suns; and they measure time by little machines in their little pockets. Now tell me,…

— Gibran Khalil Gibran

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

— Richard Flanagan

“[F]or time itself is conceived as 'coming round'; and this again because time and such a standard rotation mutually determine each other. Hence, to…

— Aristotle

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

— Lauren Oliver