David Mitchell Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Past, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Sonmi-451". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. 2012.

• Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Speed, Disappear

• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

• The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Voice, Mind

• I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Scared, Nervous

• The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

  David Mitchell

  Past

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

• Time is the speed at which the past decays.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Decay, Speed

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.235, Random House

• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

  David Mitchell

  Dad, Past, Brave

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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