Quote by Halldór Laxness

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“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

“Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

— John F. Kennedy

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.”

— Christopher Hill

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

“But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker