Martha Graham Quotes

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

The past is more than a memory.

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

The future is always here in the past

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

The good old days are now.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

We are tomorrow's past.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

History takes time... History makes memory.

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

History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

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

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

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.