We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. (Glen Duncan)

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Glen Duncan

Related topics

account blame lay past present selves

Related quotes

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. View quote
Learned Hand
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. View quote
Henri Bergson