Breeze Quote by Alan Lightman

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

— Paul Scott

The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists, until the moment you don't.

— Melchor Lim

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

— Peter Ackroyd

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who…

— Alan Lightman

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

— James Thurber

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

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

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

— Carlton Cuse

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

— William Kristol