The good of ancient times let others state, I think it lucky I was born so late.
Past Quotes
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
There is always something rather absurd about the past.
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. (T)he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one – the knowledge and the dream.
I conceive of my own branch of the trade as story-telling. The stories I want to tell have a direct inter-relation – in that they all deal with the struggles of men for freedom. They are not historical studies and they are not political studies – they are stories about people… As to why I […]
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
