Art Quote by John Berger

“So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“The past doesn’t change, does it?” “It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.”

— Paul J. McAuley

“The past in an interpretation. The future is an illusion.”

— Elif Shafak

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

— Anatol Lieven

“This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare.”

— Demitria Lunetta

“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”

— George R.R. Martin

“If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.”

— Bryant McGill

“The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The present is shaped by the past.”

— Amine A. Ayad

“The past should be seen as a time for learning, rather than a time for living.”

— Covenant A. Akinlotan

“Past experiences are not always an ideal or good reflection of the present or the future.”

— Steven Redhead