Quotes About Past

I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I didn't. I carried back and forth, from north to south and east to west, the weariness of having had a past, the disquiet of living a present, and the tedium of having to have a future. And yet I struggle so hard to remain entirely in the present, killing inside me the past and the future.

The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present nor ever can be – absurdity, my love, absurdity.

La dulzura del pasado? El recordarlo, puesto que recordarlo es hacerlo presente y no lo es ni ya lo puede ser —el absurdo, mi amor, el absurdo.

Ah, my dead childhood! A corpse ever alive in my breast!

What I was and will never be again! What I had and will never have again!

Dicen los ocultistas, o algunos de ellos, que hay momentos supremos del alma en que ésta recuerda, con la emoción o con parte de la memoria, un momento, o un aspecto, o una sombra de una encarnación anterior. Y entonces, como regresa a un tiempo que está más cerca que su presente del origen y del comienzo de las cosas, siente, en cierto modo, una infancia y una liberación.

The total snuffing out of life and the soul, the complete banishment of all beings and people, the night without memory or illusion, the absence of past and future .....

Eu amo tudo o que foi Eu amo tudo o que foi, Tudo o que já não é, A dor que já me não dói, A antiga e errônea fé, O ontem que dor deixou, O que deixou alegria Só porque foi, e voou E hoje é já outro dia.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

I am fascinated with times past.

I've always been fascinated by history.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

I like history because you can't really progress without knowing what comes before you, so I think it's super fascinating.

History is just fascinating. I love it.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

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

It's really crazy looking back on my bullies or whoever was trying to torment me or tease me, because karma is just, like, crazy.