Accepting Quote by Johan Huizinga

“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and…

— Robert A. Nisbet

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

— Gloria Steinem

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

— Graham Swift

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be.

— Sasha Velour

“life of anticipating the future with joy instead of rehashing the past”

— Ken Dickson

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over…

— Susan Griffin

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past,…

— Robert W. Hanning

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre…

— Dean F. Wilson