Books Quote by Mircea Eliade

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls…

— Lin Yutang

“In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the…

— Melissa de la Cruz

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

— George W. Bush

“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called human nature,…

— Frank Kermode

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands.…

— Anonymous

“For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s one of…

— Christina Engela

“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still,…

— Joan Silber