579 quotes found
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
“People so easily forget their past selves.”
“The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.”
“Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy hi...”
“What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.”
“Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated ...”
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, you...”
“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nat...”
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, o...”
“There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.”
“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -”
“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only ma...”
“At last, the clock settled in the right place.”
“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...”
“Once again standing on past route.”
“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
