Quotes About Time

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

History is everything that has ever happened.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

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

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

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

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.