Past Quotes

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I j...

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constru...

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of so...

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their te...

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedl...

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't unders...

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only ...

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power o...

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and althou...

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which th...

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then an...

At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regr...

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her hea...

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and t...

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching preciou...

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not...

It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect fo...

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presenc...

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the...

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our...

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the...

Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to th...

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of po...

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but...

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's ...

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as...

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past...

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ...

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tip...

Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And i...

To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and...

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believer...

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...

The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dre...

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fat...

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents...

I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the pa...

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or ...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her ...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can o...

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered j...

I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sobe...

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and n...

It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imaginat...

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control ...

Look back, and smile on perils past.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to...

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increas...