William Shakespeare Quotes

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

I only remember the future.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

All I know is a door into the dark

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.