Character Quote by William Shakespeare

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Gaston Bachelard

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came…

— Suketu Mehta

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far…

— Friedrich Schiller

“The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love); in the…

— John D. Zizoulas

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

— Parker J. Palmer

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through…

— Terence McKenna

Everything in life gradually disappears until memories disappear with time.to become just things has passed

— Shrouk

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

History does not unfold: it piles up.

— Robert Adams