All Quotes By Tag: Past

“I take care of the future by controlling the past.”

“I remember when you’ll be a month old, and I’ll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding.”

“It’s easy to write history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”

“All events and people you have cherished in the past, and all events and people that are yet to happen to you, exist at all times. This for sure beats the traditional concept of heaven!”

“In English, consciousness and unconsciousness are part of a vertical plane, so that we wake up ↑ and we fall ↓ asleep and we sink ↓ into a coma. Chinese uses the horizontal line, so that to wake is to cross a border towards consciousness → and to faint is to go back ← . Meanwhile, time itself is vertical so that last year is “the year above” ↑ and next year is “the year below” ↓. The day before yesterday is the day “in front” ↑ and the day after tomorrow is the day “behind” ↓. This means that future generations are not the generations ahead, but the ones behind. Therefore, to look into the future one must turn around…”

“I told you I loved you, but I said it a little too late. You move in time and sometimes our timing is against one another.”

“We are the ghost of the choices we didn’t make and shredded skin of the ones we did!”

“Memories are aches; they are the laughterSmiles of time flee to seize the hereafter”

“Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind’s fateful inexperience, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.”

“The past may not last, but it leaves behind endless scars.”

“If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again”, )”

“The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the ‘present.”

“Time has a funny way of helping us come to terms with any event, no matter how horrible.”

“if “now” is said, it would instantly be in the past.”

“I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.”