Sarah Dessen Quotes

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time