Past Quotes

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...

Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; n...

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to ...

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of...

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their histo...

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. Yo...

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the p...

For years I lived my life suspended, trapped by the past, unable to move into the future. Like every...

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in th...

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deed...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightT...

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions th...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - ...

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoug...

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visi...

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly...

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--f...

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ...

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not ...

You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago," (Magnus)"I hav...

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the ...

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d...

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving...

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond kno...

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him ...

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself ...

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, a...

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger ...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever...

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year ...

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I thi...

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't r...

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you ...

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge...

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stai...

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We w...

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.