It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....
Kate MortonTags: art past photography
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
Chuck PalahniukOnce there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
Cormac McCarthyTags: past man world nature loss environment wonder fish creation earth allegory brooks destruction glens maps mystery parable trout
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil KeaneTags: inspirational attributed-no-source past present hope misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt widely-misattributed
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: inspirational past future age time dreams dreaming dark
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren KierkegaardTags: life past future reflection understanding
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
Rick WarrenTags: inspirational past change growth learning-from-mistakes
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane AustenTags: past pleasure elizabeth-bennet remembrance
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William FaulknerThe only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
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