Walter Raleigh Quotes

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

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

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

History doesn't have a curfew.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

On great fields something stays.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

That is a long word: forever!

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Forever is composed of nows.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.