Time Quote by Anonymous

“The distance we set between ourselves and the events of our past life, which reduces their scale, the backlog of things we failed to…

— Catherine Millet

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

— Tim Cope

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert

“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Distance reminds us that there’s a lot more to the universe than just people—that there’s even a lot more to people than just people.…

— Aldous Huxley

“On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged…

— Robert Musil

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we…

— Nikki Giovanni

“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets…

— Rutger Bregman

“There are many lives and many years, and relatively few moments when those individual histories touch each other with real recognition.”

— Teju Cole

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe