History Quotes / TimeAbyss

'''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]]:''' As old as God, maybe older. [[TheFogOfAges Neither of us can remember anymore]]. Life/Death, Chicken/Egg - regardless: At the end I reap him too.\\

->You know, I've been here a long time. I remember many things. I remember being on a shore-line, watching a little grey fish heave itself up on the beach. And an older brother saying "Don't step on that fish, Castael. Big plans for that fish." I remember the tower of Babel, all 37 feet of it, which I guess was impressive at the time. And when it toppled, they howled "Divine wrath!" But come on...[[RealityEnsues dried dung can only be stacked so high.]]

->You know, I've been here a long time. I remember many things. I remember being on a shore-line, watching a little grey fish heave itself up on the beach. And an older brother saying "Don't step on that fish, Castael. Big plans for that fish." I remember the tower of Babel, all 37 feet of it, which I guess was impressive at the time.

-->--[[{{Supernatural}} Castiel]]

-->There are not many of them, all things considered: the truly old. Even on this planet, in this age, when people consider a mere hundred years, or a thousand, to be an unusual span. There are, for example, less than ten thousand humanoid individuals alive today who have personal memories of the saber-toothed tiger, the megatherium, the cave bear. There are today less than a thousand who walked the streets of Atlantis (The first Atlantis. The other lands that bore than name were shadows, echo-Atlantises, and they came later.) There are less than five hundred living humans who remember the human civilizations that predated the great lizards (There were a few; fossil records are unreliable. Several of them lasted for millions of years.)There are roughly seventy people walking the Earth, human to all appearances (and in some cases, to all medical tests currently available) who were alive before the Earth had begun to congeal from gas and dust. How well do you know your friends, your neighbors, your lovers?Walk the streets of any city and stare carefully at the people who pass you, and know this: They are there too. The old ones.

->''"There are not many of them, all things considered: the truly old. ... There are roughly seventy people walking the earth, human to all appearances (and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available), who were alive before the earth had begun to congeal from gas and dust. Walk the streets of any city, and stare carefully at the people who pass you, and wonder, and know this: They are there too. The Old Ones."''
--->-- '''NeilGaiman''', ''TheSandman''

There are not many of them, all things considered: the truly old. Even on this planet, in this age, when people consider a mere hundred years, or a thousand, to be an unusual span. There are, for example, less than ten thousand humanoid individuals alive today who have personal memories of the saber-toothed tiger, the megatherium, the cave bear. There are today less than a thousand who walked the streets of Atlantis (The first Atlantis. The other lands that bore than name were shadows, echo-Atlantises, and they came later.) There are less than five hundred living humans who remember the human civilizations that predated the great lizards (There were a few; fossil records are unreliable. Several of them lasted for millions of years.)There are roughly seventy people walking the Earth, human to all appearances (and in some cases, to all medical tests currently available) who were alive before the Earth had begun to congeal from gas and dust. How well do you know your friends, your neighbors, your lovers?Walk the streets of any city and stare carefully at the people who pass you, and know this: They are there too. The old ones.

-->-- Tom Bombadil, ''TheLordOfTheRings''

--> "Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: [[ThirdPersonPerson Tom]] was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the Little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, [[FlatWorld before the seas were bent]]. He knew the [[DarkIsNotEvil dark under the stars when it was fearless]] - before the [[BiggerBad Dark Lord]] came from Outside."

-->-- '''[[spoiler:Alera]]''', ''CodexAlera''

->"I have seen thousands of millions of years, Octavian. In a time such as that, oceans swell and die away. Deserts become green farmlands. Mountains are ground to dust and valleys, and new mountains are born in fire. The earth itself flows like water, great ranges of land spinning and colliding, and the stars themselves spin and reel into new shapes." She smiled. "It is the great dance, Aleran, and the lifetime of your race is but a beat within a measure." ... "In that time," she said, "I have seen the deaths of many things. Entire species come and go, like the sparks rising from a campfire."
-->-- [[spoiler:the great fury]] '''Alera''' to Tavi, ''CodexAlera''

'''[[AffablyEvil Death]]:''' Just a bit.

'''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]]:''' As old as God, maybe older. [[TheFogOfAges Neither of us can remember anymore]]. Life/Death, Chicken/Egg - regardless: At the end I reap him to.\\

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'''[[AffablyEvil Death]]:''' Just a bit.\\

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