Terry Eagleton Quotes

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

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

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

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.

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

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

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

I only remember 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.