Past Quotes

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (“Nineteen Eighty-Four”)

I’d been running for most of life, from what only I really knew but seldom talked about. It was time to stop running and face some harsh realities.

Life seems to me to consist of three parts: the absorbing and usually enjoyable present which rushes on from minute to minute with fatal speed; the future, dim and uncertain, for which one can make any number of interesting plans, the wilder and more improbable the better, since — as nothing will turn out as […]

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.

There are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

Any film set in the past or the future, it’s bound to have some sort of allegory.