“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”
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“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
Variant: People see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it’ll be.
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 9 (p. 292)
Thích Nhất Hạnh here quotes and interprets the "Ten Penetrations" of the Avatamsaka Sutra
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." In the past, you can see the present and the future. In the present, you can find the past and future. In the future, you can find the past and present. They "inter-contain" each other. Space contains time, time contains space. In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.
Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
Nobody Wins
Song lyrics, Jesus Was a Capricorn (1972)