History Quote by Washington Irving

(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin

— Washington Irving

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

“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 memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of…

— Will Durant

“Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man”.”

— Hourly History

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured…

— Andrew Carnegie

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.…

— Albert Camus

“On Legacy: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." — Pericles”

— Oriss Soleyenni

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

— Daniel Wallace