Wilbur Smith Quotes

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

It's up to history to judge.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Today is a part of eternity.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.