#past

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#past #present #illusion

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#discovery

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#karma #past #karma

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way? ↗

— Roland Barthes

#memory #past #present #time #biography

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#memory #past #present #imagination

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime. ↗

— Alex Collier

#love #past-lives #love

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast. ↗

— Valerie Martin

#imagination

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#past #love

Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. ↗

— James Luceno

#future #instinct #past #imagination

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#entered #forge #i #material #noble