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“It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than…

— Andrew Levkoff

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to…

— Catherine Anderson

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day…

— Nicholas Sparks

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for…

— Laozi

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons,…

— James McBride

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

— R.J. Rushdoony

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

— Aravind Adiga

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something…

— Jorge Luis Borges