M. J. Rose Quotes

The past is a present force.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

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

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Never underestimate how history injects itself into the present.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The past has a lobby …; the future does not have a lobby.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

One faces the future with one's past.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

We are tomorrow's past.

The past is the present and the future too.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.