“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
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Beryl Bainbridge 5
English novelist 1932–2010Related quotes
“See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 18 (p. 144)
Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
Source: The Second Sex (1949)
“Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
“The past has ended its time, the present is the moment, the future the becoming.”
Original: (it) Il passato ha concluso il suo tempo, il presente è l'attimo, il futuro il divenire.
Source: prevale.net
“He swore, pissed off, trying to keep the past in the past instead of stinking up the present.”
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 11 (p. 130)
Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 227
Context: The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have. The past and future have meaning because they are part of the present: a past event has existence now because you are thinking of it at this present moment, or because it influences you so that you, as a living being in the present, are that much different. The future has reality because one can bring it into his mind in the present. Past was the present at one time, and the future will be the present at some coming moment. To try to live in the "when" of the future or the "then" of the past always involves an artificiality, a separating one's self from reality; for in actuality one exists in the present. The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it makes the present richer and more profound.
Source: Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007), p. 6.
The Law of Mind (1892)