Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Time brings all things to pass.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

I believe change is the only constant in life, and there is a place and time for everything.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.