temporal connection Quotes

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

The present is the past biting into the future.

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.