Henry Rollins Quotes

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.

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.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

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

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

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

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

The past is where its supposed to be.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

We are tomorrow's past.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

It may not be art, but it is history.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

… so that in 50 years no one could claim that this did not happen.

We're trying to let people see what their grandfather told them about.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.