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Weekend Words: Yesterday

This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday.

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Georg Pencz, "Triumph of Time" (1532 or later). Line engraving, 13.9 x 20.7 cm. Series of six engravings from Petrarch's "Six Triumphs." Hermitage Museum. (Image via arthermitage.org)
Georg Pencz, “Triumph of Time” (1532 or later). Line engraving, 13.9 x 20.7 cm. Series of six engravings from Petrarch’s “Six Triumphs.” Hermitage Museum. (Image via arthermitage.org)

This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday:

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”

—Marcus Aurelius
“Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday. I don’t know.”

—Albert Camus, The Stranger
“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

—Michel de Montaigne
“Yesterday I loved
today I suffer,
tomorrow I die:
but I still think fondly
today and tomorrow,
of yesterday.”

—G. E. Lessing, Lied aus dem Spanischen
“You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”

—Luigi Pirandello