Time Immemorial Quotes

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

his voice was centuries old

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.