John Ruskin Quotes

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Never, ever forget history.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

I write in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

History is the present day consideration of what went before.

Never forget

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

I don't think you can erase history.

Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

The past is more than a memory.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.