Epic-fantasy Quote by S.M. White

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

“Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.”

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.”

— Catherine Clark

“The past made him the man he is today. I can't have him as he is now without it.”

— Lorelei James

“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”

— Robert Harris

“He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.”

— John Diefenbaker

“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

“Why ruin the present by talking about the past?”

— Victor Robert Lee

“He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the…

— Frank Herbert

“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“In the rational light of day, he could tell himself that it was better this way, for both of them. The past was the…

— Kyra Dune

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

— Gerda Weissmann Klein