History Quotes
Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.
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"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"I am death. I have watched her. I watched this girl. She stole the book."Death
"There is no such thing as a true history."Judge Holden
"Everything that had ever happened on Earth was repeated one hundred years later."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"We inherit the sins of our ancestors."Werner
"The past and present are inextricably linked."Werner
"The town was becoming legendary before it had finished being founded."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"We are destined to repeat history, endlessly, until we learn from it."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"In the end, we are all condemned to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The past has a terrible way of catching up with the present."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past is composed of all that we have done and all that was done to us."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"That's the thing about wars. They don't end when they're over."Death
"Everything I knew about history began and ended there."Death
"What has occurred once will occur again"Judge Holden
"What is past is prologue"Judge Holden
"Her story outlived the war."Death
"Whatever is inscribed in stone endures"Judge Holden
"Stones hold memory better than people."Marie-Laure
"The town forgotten by the winds carried the weight of infinite time"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past always finds a way to haunt the present"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The cycles of history repeated themselves endlessly in the town of Macondo."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The boy who blocks the street."Death
"She had yellow hair and a brutal history."Death
"It is impossible to move forward without memory."Werner
"The past returns in the form of a curse."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past was still a living thing."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past was a fixed and iron-bound period over which the historians held a total and absolute power."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The town had been built in a forgotten corner of the map"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The town existed in a perpetual state of nostalgia for its own past."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The cycles of history repeated themselves with mathematical precision."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)