Continuity Quote by Philip K. Dick

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a…

— Marcel Proust

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— J. Michael Straczynski

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is…

— Alan Lightman

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

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

— Rajneesh

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the…

— Eckhart Tolle

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

— Adele Parks

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

— Vivian Gornick

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is…

— Grace King