Quote for Today: Alan Moore
The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park, in 1959. In twelve seconds time, I drop …
Quote for Today: Henry Miller
Here there is buried legend after legend of youth and melancholy, of savage nights and mysterious bosoms dancing on the wet mirror of the pavement, of women chuckling softly as they …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring – and all of the acts carried out – on …
Quote for Today: Martha Graham
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. ―Martha …
Quote for Today: Daphne du Maurier
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would …
Quote for Today: Lewis Carroll
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like …
Quote for Today: Dave Eggers
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers …
Quote for Today: Sarah Kay
I love hands like I love people. They are the maps and compasses with which we navigate our way through life: feeling our way over mountains passed and valleys crossed, …