Quotes About Past

He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel. Hold on if you can, he told himself. Cling to yesterdays. Leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide.

To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past. If

Contar una cosa del pasado comporta también contar una historia del presente. Volver a contar una fantasía, un relato de cosas imaginarias, equivale a volver a contar un relato sobre lo existente.

London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot alter even an instant of the past.

So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright. So it is true that every step we take is more like a reptile's progress across the sand, leaving a track behind it. And often, alas, the track is the mark of our tears!

Avete mai provato per qualcuno una di quelle irresistibili simpatie che fanno sì che vedendo una persona per la prima volta, credete di conoscerlo da lungo tempo, e vi domandate dove è quando l'abbiate vista, cosicché, non potendo ricordarvi né il luogo né il tempo finite con il credere che sia stato in un mondo anteriore al nostri, e che questa simpatia sia un ricordo che si risvegli?

While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.

His youth reappeared, bringing with it all those sweet souvenirs which are rather perfumes than thoughts. Between that past and the present there was an abyss. But imagination has the angel's or lightning's wing; it clears seas in which we should certainly have been shipwrecked; it removes the darkness in which our illusions were lost, the precipice where our happiness was engulfed.

La sua giovinezza gli riapparve portando tutti i ricordi soavi, che sono profumi piuttosto che pensieri. Da quel passato al presente c'era un abisso. Ma la fantasia ha il volto dell'angelo e del baleno; essa varca i mari nei quali abbiamo corso il rischio di naufragare, le tenebre dove si sono perdute le nostre illusioni, gli abissi che hanno inghiottito la nostra felicità

Ceea ce lipseÈ™te judec??ilor mele de ast?zi e aprecierea exact? a trecutului, deoarece îl rev?d la cap?tul cel?lalt al orizontului. Pe m?sur? ce înaint?m, trecutul se È™terge în urma noastr? ca un peisaj prin care trecem. Mi se întâmpl? ceea ce se întâmpl? oamenilor care s-au r?nit în vis: îÈ™i privesc È™i îÈ™i simt rana, dar nu-È™i aduc aminte c? au primit-o.

Ah c'est que tu as vingt ans, toi, et que tu peux oublier le passé, j'en ai cinquante, et je suis bien forcé de m'en souvenir

After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.

Very well," replied M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, and seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

He could not do this, he whose past life was so short, whose present so melancholy, and his future so doubtful.

Recuando no passado, esqueço o presente; percorrendo livre e independente a História, esqueço-me de que estou preso