“We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.”

“Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.”

“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”

“She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.”

“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.”