It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be…

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

— Garrett Fort

“the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted…

— Virginia Woolf

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.”

— Alain de Botton

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

— Pico Iyer

My hours are peaceful centuries.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

— John Berger

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its…

— Nikola Tesla

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

— Celia Green

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

— Alan Paton

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Truth takes no account of centuries.

— William Wordsworth

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin