Past Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

“What is past is what is real.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…

— Jorge Luis Borges

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the…

— Jorge Luis Borges