Advantage Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory…

— Lydia Millet

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

— Anonymous

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it…

— Arnold Bennett

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

— Charles Dickens

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a…

— Isak Dinesen

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

— Orhan Pamuk

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

— Estela Portillo Trambley