Antiquity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise…

— Azar Nafisi

“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only place where…

— Rutger Bregman

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are…

— Natalia Ginzburg

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past.…

— Haruki Murakami

We need to remind ourselves of the kind of society of which we have dreamed for so long, for which we have fought, and…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us…

— Paulo Coelho

“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

“Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes…

— George Eliot

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few…

— Paul Fussell