Quotes About Past

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.

They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live.

I bambini sono senza passato ed è questo tutto il mistero dell'innocenza magica del loro sorriso...

GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laissé derrière nous, plus irrésistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour

The life we've left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints to us, of taking us to court.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

He goes on reading, and remembers nothing. So what has this stranger come to tell him? To remind him that he used to live here under Josef's name?

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . the novel's spirit is the spirit of continuity. . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.

Gli uomini gridavano di volere creare un futuro migliore, ma non è vero. Il futuro è solo un vuoto indifferente che non interessa nessuno, mentre il passato è pieno di vita e il suo volto ci irrita, ci provoca, ci offende, e così lo vogliamo distruggere o ridipingere. Gli uomini vogliono essere padroni del futuro solo per poter cambiare il passato. Si battono per poter entrare nel laboratorio dove si ritoccano le fotografie, dove si riscrivono le biografie e la storia.

Gelecek kimsenin umrunda olmayan, ilgisiz bir boÅŸluktur, geçmiÅŸ ise yaÅŸam doludur, k?zd?r?r, baÅŸkald?rt?r, yaralar, o kadar ki bu yüzden onu yok etmek ya da yeniden yaratmak isteriz. GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Não posso evocar essas velhas culturas antigas sem uma espécie de nostalgia. De nostalgia e inveja, ao pensar sem dúvida na suave lentidão da história naquele tempo.

L'avenir n'est qu'un vide indifférent qui n'intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse au point que nous voulons le détruire ou le repeindre.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

L'avenir n'est qu'un vide indifférent qui n'intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse, au point que nous voulons le détruire et le repeindre.

Et là est l'horreur: le passé dont on se souvient est dépourvu de temps. Impossible de revivre un amour comme on relit un livre ou comme on revoit un film.

Observação importante: imitação não quer dizer falta de autenticidade, porque o indivíduo não pode deixar de imitar o que já teve lugar; por muito sincero que seja, não é mais do que uma reincarnação; por muito verdadeiro que seja, não é mais do que uma resultante das sugestões e das injunções emanadas do poço do passado.

That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life there are windows now, windows opening to the rear, onto what she has experienced; from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these windows.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

For nostalgia does not heighten memory's activity, it does not awaken recollections; it suffices unto itself, unto its own feelings, so fully absorbed is it by its suffering and nothing else.

He wanted to efface her from the photograph of his life not because he had not loved her but because he had.

The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history.