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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.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter
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.”
Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
St. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/ <br class="br">Context: Once out of nature I shall never take<br>My bodily form from any natural thing,<br>But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make<br>Of hammered gold and gold enamelling<br>To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;<br>Or set upon a golden bough to sing<br>To lords and ladies of Byzantium<br>Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
“What is now in the past was once in the future”
Ramachandra Guha (1958) historian and writer from India
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.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
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.
