Character Quote by F. Sionil Jose

The past can be tamed and controlled.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it.…

— Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

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

“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness…

— F. Sionil José

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation,…

— Israel Zangwill

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal…

— Lytton Strachey

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and…

— Kedar Joshi

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward…

— Susanna Kearsley

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in…

— George Orwell

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

— Max Beerbohm