Avenues Quote by Martha Ostenso

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

— Mason Jennings

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

— Eric G. Wilson

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

— Vidya Balan

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

— Jennifer Gilmore

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Past Is Written on Your Face once we see ourselves in that much bigger context we are a mere blip in time we…

— Anonymous