The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
The past is what the past is.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.