Diane Lane Quotes

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

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

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

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

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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

The past is another planet.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

We can never go back.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

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.

Remembrance of things past.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.