Quotes of: Past-life Keyword

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

Nancy Werlin

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Richard Elman

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Angela Carter

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usef...

E. T. Bell

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Jerry Saltz

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

1984

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Adam Bede

Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?

The Alchemy of Forever

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

All the Pretty Horses

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

The Alchemist

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

All the King's Men

A man cannot fully embrace his future…until he first releases his past

Apostles, Elders & Other Ministries

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

The Arm of the Starfish

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?

Honor Among Thieves

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

Hawksmoor

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

The Inheritance of Loss