Identity Quote by Nick Joaquín

“Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.”

— Douglas Coupland

“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

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“Human nature in time is engraved in history.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.”

— Eudora Welty

“There are many lives and many years, and relatively few moments when those individual histories touch each other with real recognition.”

— Teju Cole

“Poetry, philosophy, and physics all teach us that we don’t experience time in equal increments.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“The epoch by itself will reveal those people who stand by your side in hardship and who do not.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our…

— Twan Eng Tan