Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

We are tomorrow's past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

History cannot be reversed.

I don't think you can erase history.

History doesn't have a curfew.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

The past is our very being.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.