The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.
Simon ReynoldsTags: life past present music time nostalgia pop-culture smiths pop retro morrissey
A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!
Nancy Atherton...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
John GeddesTags: past experience writing-craft memories writing-process blank-pages
I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes.
Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images.
Tags: consciousness past mind memory
... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
Dan SimmonsI didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.
Eva RiceSpiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne WilliamsonTags: past pain letting-go spiritual-growth
But the past is long, and the future is short.
Karen Thompson WalkerIt is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Frank HerbertOnly fools prefer the past!
Frank HerbertTags: past
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