Anthem Quote by Paul Theroux

“Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.”

— George R. R. Martin

“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence, and evil…

— Luo Guanzhong

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore…

— Bret Harte

“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the gay time,…

— John Steinbeck

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a…

— Mark Twain

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .…

— Gaston Bachelard

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors…

— Winston Churchill

“Any future is unknown – but sometimes it acquires a particular fogginess, as if some other force had come to the aid of destiny's…

— Vladimir Nabokov

History is the siren song of the soul.

— Terence McKenna

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

— Cressida Cowell