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# Weekend Words: Yesterday
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-yesterday/
- Published: 2013-03-10T14:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:38.000Z
- Description: This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![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)  ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/03/ww38.jpg)

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**