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Effects of the past13 quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou · 1993Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before? — Joan Didion · 1963The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life. — John Clare · 1845All 13 quotes →The past9 quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou · 1993The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson · 1907The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. — D'Angelo Barksdale · 2006The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us! — Jimmy Gator · 1999All 9 quotes →Past and present4 quotes
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life. — John Clare · 1845The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson · 1907I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. — Old Paul Edgecomb · 1999Free will2 quotes
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before? — Joan Didion · 1963Decisions and choices1 quote
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx · 1852History repeating itself1 quote
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou · 1993Paying it forward1 quote
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. — Albert Einstein · 1930Stories1 quote
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. — Hermann Hesse · 1919The human condition1 quote
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925