“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 215
“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)
“The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.”
El traidor no es menester
siendo la traición pasada.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 1109.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 575.
“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
O meu passado é tudo quanto não consegui ser.
Source: The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 100
“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
To Jacques Mercanton, on the structure of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22
Source: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013), p. 69