past Quotes

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.