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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
Variant: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”
St. 4
The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/
Context: Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
“What is now in the past was once in the future”
Source: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Variant: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
