Quote by Donna Tartt

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.”

— Anatol Lieven

“The things of the past are difficult to recreate.”

— Steven Redhead

“That vivid present of theirs, how faint it grows! The past is only the present become invisible and mute, and because it is invisible…

— Mary Webb

“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.”

— Tom Harper

“The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.”

— Alanna Zabel

“The past is like a broken mirror— you don’t remember but fleeting glimpses of it, sparse moments over many years, all combined in that…

— Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.”

— Mary Webb

“The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on…

— Louise Erdrich

“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a bed, a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch