Eye Quote by A. D. Coleman

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“There is an otherness inside us We never touch, no matter how far down our hands reach. It is the past, with its good…

— Charles Wright

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

— Edwidge Danticat

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

— Jennifer Gilmore

“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...”

— Avijeet Das

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

— Saskia de Brauw

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood