In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
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.
The past is where its supposed to be.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.