A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
Time Quotes
The sourced entries here are an odd mix: Edmund Burke on planning the future by the past (1791), Rollo May on learning to live in the present (1953), and a line about death from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) that turns up on several pages because it fits more than one. Shakespeare leads the page by a wide margin, with T. S. Eliot a distant second.
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” is credited to Groucho Marx almost everywhere and is flagged. No citation to Marx has been found. It first appears in the mid-1960s, unattributed, in logic and computing texts, as an example of why machines find ordinary sentences hard to parse.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.