Forgotten Past Quotes

“We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.”
― Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind

“The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.”
― Tim Cahill, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

“I wasn’t old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he’d never have to love her again.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“I am Itzapoca. Long ago the Mayans worshiped me as a god. Today I am forgotten, a stone head half-buried in the jungle. Yet I have endured for ages, far longer than any puny modern structure built from steel and concrete. Long before the era of hydraulic cranes, my followers lifted me to the top of this lush green slope where I sit looking down on the shining blue waters of the bay.”
― Carol Storm, Unexpected Dreams

“Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The darting orange flames in the stone fireplace told how the sun went into a tree and the tree made fire, but where had these round gray hearthstones come from, and who had collected them so long ago and built this fireplace?”
― Mike Bond, America