“But the past is long, and the future is short.”
“Psychology has a long past, but only a short history”
“And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”
“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”
“How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”