Pastness Quotes

#1. Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Thomas Mann

#2. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#3. Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Winifred Holtby

#4. Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

#5. If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

N.D. Wilson

#6. One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

Bee Wilson

#7. No one was coming to save me. I was alone. I welcomed the darkness to take me, and I closed my eyes to this world.

Ashlan Thomas

#8. If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

Markus Zusak

#10. To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

Marion Davies

#11. I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

Amanda Seyfried

#12. They ordered from various designers, and returned to Paris several weeks later for their fittings. I was able to attend the fittings also, since I was in Paris working with Aziz on 'Sacred Sex in Sacred Places.

Young

#13. Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.

Italo Calvino

#15. A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.

Vinita Kinra