“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
El traidor no es menester
siendo la traición pasada.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 1109.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
Internationale Situationist (no. 1, Paris, June 1958).
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) American writer
Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 575.
Cordell Hull (1871–1955) American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
1945 Testimony before the U.S. Congress hearings on the United Nations Charter
“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
“the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.”
Herbert Marcuse book One-Dimensional Man
Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 7