Quotes About Time

History is absolutely my thing.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

History is a bucket of ashes.

History! Read it and weep!

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History's a resource.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.