Diary Quote by Rob Shepherd

“Things are long gone. We are are living in era of plenitude of meanings – the abundance of bygone!”

— Mrityunjay

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“When memory of bygone days My spirit would detain, Down long and often trodden ways I travel the past again. Above your house are…

— Anonymous

“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

“Then I said to myself, "If the centuries are going by, mine will come too, and will pass, and after a time the last…

— Machado de Assis

“For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of…

— Chinua Achebe

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we…

— T.E. Lawrence

“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.”

— Ross Lockridge Jr

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt