Oscar Wilde Quotes

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

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.

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 future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

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

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

I only remember the future.

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

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

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

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

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.