Littles Quote by Dodie Smith

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

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

— Lynn Hershman Leeson

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

— Cressida Cowell

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good…

— Peter Benchley

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

— Paloma Faith

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

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

— Frederick Buechner

“the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to…

— Jennifer Ashley

“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all…

— Alexander Pushkin

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Paul Scott