Adventure Quote by Tim Edensor

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten…

— James Salter

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a bed, a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

“Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past,…

— Robert W. Hanning

“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience…

— Walter Pater

“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

“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future.…

— Olaf Stapledon