Memories Quote by Mary Webb

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

— James Conroyd Martin

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

— Anatol Lieven

“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”

— Deborah Levy

“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

“the past never really goes away. It sinks into the walls and whispers at you when you pass.”

— Will Kostakis

“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

“It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.”

— Samuel R. Delany

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

— Cate Holahan

“She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”

— James Conroyd 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

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein