Death Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

— Will Durant

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young.

— Anonymous

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

— Joseph Goebbels

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

— William Faulkner

“Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try…

— Robert A. Orsi

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

— William Morris

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

— William Faulkner

“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 past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

— Thomas Carlyle

Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The…

— Russell Jacoby