Jim Bishop Quotes

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

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

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

But where are the snows of yester year?

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

This moment will just be another story someday.

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.

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.

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

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

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

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

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

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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