past Quotes

“he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:knowledge past present

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future past present control

“it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.”

― Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again

topic:memory past

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:time past

“In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:books past

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

topic:reading past

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

topic:time change past

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:future past

“most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages—a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:books past

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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