Cynical-quotes Quote by Brian Ruckley

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in…

— Haruki Murakami

“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along…

— Nadia Hashimi

“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

— Karen Armstrong

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“The opposite of memory--hope. SO things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”

— Isaac Marion

“But old things leave, new things come, that's the way it is. This world changes. Some say it can't hold everything”

— Ann Hillerman

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”

— Barry Webster

“All things, my son, transmute into old age, life diminishes, everything declines, the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion, and no one knows…

— W.G. Sebald

“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or…

— John Steinbeck

“We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.”

— Daniel H. Wilson