Patrick Dixon Quotes

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Everything changes.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Sometimes history speeds up..

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The Civil War is a story about how some people clung to the past, while others sought the future.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Names come and names go.