“to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.” WellsLooksPastRememberLife IsMemoriesForgetFictionProseDevicesPassagesAutobiographyStatic Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.” WayMomentsPastRegretIllusionGainsImmortalityNo PointAltered Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.” IfsMenPastBeastWithout Hope Author:P. D. James
“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.” PastDyingDisciplineSpecies Book:The Children of Men Source: The Children of Men
