A Quote by Jet Black

Man always thinks about the past before he dies. — © Jet Black
Man always thinks about the past before he dies.
Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.
When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.
Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.
Knowing that one dies... has brought with it a peace that before was elusive to say the least... it is useless, if at times pleasurable, to fantasise about the future. It is not here and it is not known. In the same way the past is just that. Past. Gone. To be relinquished. 'What's done cannot be undone.' Now is what it's about... Life is still to be lived, suffered, enjoyed, battled over.
One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.
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