Accelerate Quote by Susan Sontag

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso

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

— Max Beerbohm

“When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By…

— Erik Pevernagie

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

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.…

— Simon Schama

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

— Deepak Chopra

The Past Is Written on Your Face once we see ourselves in that much bigger context we are a mere blip in time we…

— Anonymous

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second…

— Aberjhani