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Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

 

Cormac McCarthy

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Drink: the immortal waters quench the spirit's longing.
Art thou not now, bright one, all sorrow past, in elation,
Made young with joy, grown brother-hearted with the vast,
Whither thy spirit wending flits the dim stars past
Unto the Light of Lights in burning adoration.

 

George William Russell

 

There is a philosophical, or metaphysical position that can be taken–maybe its a scientific hypothesis–that the past cannot in fact exist. Everything that can possibly exist exists now. Things now may be expressive of some conceivable or describable past state of affairs, yes:but that's different from saying this this former state actually somehow exists in the form of "the past". Even in our memory[...]there is no past:no scenes preserved with all their sights and sounds. Merely fleeting states of mind, myriad points assembled for a moment to make a new picture (but "picture" is wrong too, too full, too fixed) of what we think are former states of things: things that once were, or may have been the case.

 

John Crowley

 

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

 

Anton Chekhov

 

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

 

John Kenneth Galbraith