Explore Karma quotations through time and change, attention and perspective, hope, loss, and renewal. Compare how different writers frame the idea across distinct works and periods.
“The wheel is come full circle.”
The image describes consequences returning to their starting point and fortunes reversing over time.
King Lear, Act V, Scene III, reviewed against the scan-backed First Folio facsimile. Edmund says 'The Wheele is come full circle, I am heere' after Edgar identifies himself and describes their father's suffering; the retained quote modernizes spelling and trims the following clause.
“The evil you do to others you may expect in return.”
Harm has consequences that often return through retaliation, damaged trust, reputation, or the patterns of conduct we create.
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 2, in Darius Lyman’s 1856 English rendering; maxim order can vary across editions.
Life-oriented quotations range across time, change, hope, memory, nature, happiness, loss, and the ordinary decisions that gradually become a life.
Compare lines that point toward different definitions of a good life. The most useful quotation is often the one that names a tradeoff clearly rather than the one that sounds universally uplifting.
These routes are drawn from the quotations loaded on this page and are meant as starting points, not extra topic labels.
Concise lines for readers who want the core idea without a long passage.
Quotations connected with deeper interpretation, perspective, philosophy, or sustained thought.
Older works represented in the collection, useful for comparing how the topic changes across time.
