How did it make you feel?
Irvine WelshTags: past reflection feelings
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise PascalThe past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Robin HobbInto my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
Eduardo GaleanoTags: past nostalgia memory sea
You know the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss? I'm the opposite. I've gathered too much, and when one thing happens, it brings up everything else that's ever been similar to it. I don't just feel things once and then move on. I fell them over and over again, and the only new thing is whatever precipitated the memory of the old, so it never really feels new at all. Everything just gets integrated into one big giant ball...
Jane DevinTags: past experience memory remembering
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
Lauren KateTags: wisdom past present knowledge
But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: past yearning sorrow joy memory
True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Siri HustvedtTags: past present stories memory
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.
Cormac McCarthyTags: past future present regret the-west
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