#past

I didn't know the demons that walked across your memory. They came from the dust when you were at peace in your grave. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#poetry #revelations #the-past #truth #dreams

The past is only making you to spill tears, tears of joy or tears pain. But anyway they are making you sad, for the things you had and will never have again. ↗

— T.A

#life #past #sad #life

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#history #past #dreams

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's mother. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in knowing her. I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. What kind of letter? my grandmother asked. I told her to write whatever she wanted to write. You want a letter from me? she asked. I told her yes. Oh, God bless you, she said. The letter she gave me was sixty-seven pages long. It was the story of her life. She made my request into her own. Listen to me. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#history #past #family

Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism." I nodded again. "Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a torturer.' You may follow the plow or the drum, but still you will hear, 'He is a torturer.' Do you understand that? ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#education #past #education

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#equity #femininity #feminism #history #past

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. ↗

— Kage Baker

#history #human-experience #past-and-future #past-and-present #science-fiction

Experience," which is just a euphemism for heartache and heartbreak, failed love and false promises, for every time you told yourself This is the real thing and Finally I've found my way home only to end up lost in a muck or lying across rickety train tracks, praying for deliverance and not knowing if that would mean getting run over or being spared; "experience," which is a neutral word that most people know only means something good on a resume, a term that in the rest of life is more like a criminal rap sheet full of mishaps that cannot be expunged, this indelible quality made more frightening because there are no authorities keeping track, no one is forcing you to remember these things, it is all your own fault, it is only you who cannot forget; "experience," which is supposed to be the playground and peep show and life-size labyrinth of adolescence, which can, when it occurs at the right time in life...if it is delivered in moderate and judicious measure...make you a more capable lover and friend, spouse and partner. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#life #past #experience

This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here… MAKE IT COUNT! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#moment #past #success #experience

we can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories. ↗

— Sean Sullivan

#experience