Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

What happens to you here is forever.

On great fields something stays.

Nothing ever goes away.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

But I think it's important that things endure.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

History cannot be reversed.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

a man who builds a house never really dies.