Deluge Quote by Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and…

— Francis Bacon

“world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only thing that survives is love,…

— Dean Koontz

“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep…

— Jenny Han

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

“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

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how…

— Alice McDermott

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than…

— Jessica Khoury

“I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays…

— Beth Hoffman

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of…

— Walt Whitman

“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone…

— Thomas Pynchon