Quotes About Time

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

History is His story.

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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

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

History is a great dust heap.

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

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

History passes the final judgment

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.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

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.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.