Art Quote by Paul Fussell

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

— Nora Roberts

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

— Max Beerbohm

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The present necessarily betrays the past.

— Mason Cooley

The past is what the present is doing now.

— Rowan Williams

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the…

— Stephen Baxter

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is…

— Esther Hicks

The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW.

— 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