Meredith Brooks Quotes

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

I only remember the future.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past.

I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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

The historian is a prophet looking bzckwards.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.