Degrees Quote by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we…

— Philip K. Dick

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

— Paul Fussell

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

— Martin Amis

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or…

— Marcus Aurelius

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your…

— John Kuypers

“Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only…

— Milan Kundera

The past is the father of the present.

— Agatha Christie

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— J. Michael Straczynski