12 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson about Past
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.Lies 2: Time is a straight line.Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not.Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time.Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...)Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon.Lies 7: Reality is truth.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
The past is magnetic. It draws us in.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Jeanette Winterson
-
Quote
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?
- Tags
- Share