“Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.”
Semper enim ex aliis alias proseminat usus.
Book I, line 90.
Astronomica
“It's always the same thing, one war after another”
R.U.R. (1920)
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“… one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
From an October 1930 letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, as variously described by her biographers, e.g.:
[L]ife was not so much "one damn thing after another" as "one damn thing over and over"
As paraphrased ("she had sent [...] a half-comic note, complaining that...") with quoted phrases in Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1969), p. 198
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over
As paraphrased ("she writes that...") and apparently Bowlderized in Miriam Gurko, Restless spirit: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1962), p. 197
[I]t was not true that life is one damn thing after another — it was one damn thing over and over
As paraphrased ("Edna had written [...] that...") in Joan Dash, A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women and the Men they Married (1973), p. 189
The paraphrase by Dash appears to be the origin of later popularly attributed variants, e.g.:
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.
As attributed without citation in Psychoanalysis Today: A Case Book (1991) by Elizabeth Thorne and Shirley Herscovitch Schaye, p. 93
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same dang thing over and over again.
As attributed without citation in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
“Life is just one damn thing after another.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Attributed in Items of Interest, Vol. 33 (1911), p. 8
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
All Men are Mortal (1946)
“… the dogma that History is just "one damned thing after another…."”
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British historian, author of A Study of History
"Law and Freedom in History," <i>A Study of History</i>, Vol. 2 (1957). The embedded quotation is attributable to Elbert Hubbard.
“The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”
Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes.
Book II, epistle ii, line 55
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 21.