The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.