Quotes About Past

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

History is history. What is done is done.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

History is the third parent.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

I am a fan of history.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

History is everything that has ever happened.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The only new thing is history we don't know.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.