Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.