David Mitchell 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.

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 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

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

David Mitchell

Past, Scared, Nervous

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