Past Quotes

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...

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is ...

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persist...

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the ...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, w...

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distan...

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my so...

And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and ...

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends w...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What ...

Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What ...

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige...

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to...

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - r...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never ...

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a ka...

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practice...

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abomin...

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But wha...

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detai...

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...

There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to just...

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past ...

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediat...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod...

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to ...

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and...

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waitin...

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back...

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in t...

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that th...

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk...