Quotes

It is one thing to learn about the
past; it is another to wallow in it.
?Kenneth Auchincloss

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
?George W. Ball

I cannot sing the old songs,
Or dream those dreams again,
?Charlotte Barnard

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow
they will be somebody's good old days.
?Gerald Barzan

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-
for state. When did history become a bad word?
?John Guare

To be able to look back upon one's past
life with satisfaction is to live twice.
?Marcus Valerius Martial

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs
on the past: however far or fast he runs,
that chain runs with him.
?Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't brood on the past,
but don't forget it either.
?Thomas H. Raddal

Every journey into the past is complicated
by delusions, false memories,
false namings of real events.
?Adrienne Rich

The next day is never so
good as the day before.
?Publilius Syrus

Those who do remember it will
find new ways to screw it up.
?Charles Wolfe

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies
and structures, And all the various things
that lock our wrists to the past.
?Charles Wright