Richard Mottram Quotes

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I only remember the future.

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

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

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

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.