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Past Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live…
- But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of…
- It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
- Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could…
- Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach