The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,While we the living our lives are givingTo bring the bright new world to birth.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.