Dread Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

“Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present,…

— Dean Buonomano

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future…

— Julia Ward Howe

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are…

— Norman Mailer

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

We stress over possibilities and obsess about those who have wronged us. We get absorbed in the past and preoccupied with the future, and…

— Chris Tiegreen

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy.…

— Wyndham Lewis

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are…

— Marcel Proust

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

— Tom Hiddleston

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

— Karen Horney