Time Quote by Mary Webb

“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.”

— Mary Webb

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are…

— Mary Webb

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“The past is always with us. It echoes through every living moment, giving it depth and meaning beyond itself. Sometimes the past is so…

— Trish Feehan

“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future…

— Stefan Zweig

“The past is always hiding behind the present, threatening to peek out and drag everything down.”

— Cate Holahan

“Sometimes, you think you have forgotten everything, that the rust and dust of the years have destroyed all the things we once entrusted to…

— Anonymous

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

— Anatol Lieven

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”

— F. Sionil José

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles…

— Cecil Baldwin

“A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is…

— Paul Theroux

“What is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”

— James Conroyd Martin