Our Past Quotes

Quotes tagged as "our-past" Showing 1-4 of 4
Ocean Vuong
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering.”
Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Arduous Errand: a voyage across the ocean

Linda  Durham
“We may think our past is behind us. Yet, sometimes it is blatantly in our face. Moments, seemingly lost, become inextricably intertwined with consciousness in the Here and Now.”
Linda Durham, Still Moving: a memoir