Past Quote by Lion Feuchtwanger

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

— Max Beerbohm

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as…

— Walter Benjamin

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts…

— Anonymous

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

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

What we do with our past is my big question. Normally, people either glorify the past or want to forget about it. But these…

— Alice Rohrwacher

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

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those…

— Umberto Eco

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

— Anonymous