Cemetery Quote by Rob Bignell

“What might have faded away naturally over time became etched in stone”

— Anonymous

“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

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness,…

— Anna Comnena

“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by…

— Ann Radcliffe

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an…

— Philip Larkin

“You see that stones are worn away by time, Rocks rot, and twoers topple, even the shrines And images of the gods grow very…

— Lucretius

“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing…

— C.G. Jung

“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of…

— Minae Mizumura

“...I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains…

— Paul O. Kristeller

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust