Hauntology Quotes

“We live our lives not once, it suggested, but again and again: entering the same dilemmas, making the same mistakes, coming to the same crossroads and always, after much anguished weighing of possibilities, taking the same road as before. We encounter the same delights and the same miseries, every time as fresh as they were before – though sometimes, at some apparently meaningless moment, there may come like an echo of a familiar phrase of music a sudden momentary flash of memory from some point along the spiral we have already travelled, bringing with it the déjà vu sensation that Priestley put into his title, and that almost everybody has experienced at some time: I have been here before. And then the flash is gone, and our lives go on, repeating their pattern over and over again.97”
― Merlin Coverley, Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past