History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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