Courses Quote by Henry James

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with…

— Hilary Mantel

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

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

— Patricia Hampl

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

— Bill Bryson

“We also have the word 'feeling'. Its present tense suggests the active present, that the feeling is directly in contact with reality. But it…

— David Bohm

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

— Paul Scott

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

— Jenny Zhang

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the…

— David Rakoff

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